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Author: Larian Nkomo

Transforming Digital Education: Essential Skills for Digital Learning Professionals

Transforming Digital Education: Essential Skills for Digital Learning Professionals

As a digital learning professional with a background in educational technology and teacher education, I have been fortunate to work in various capacities across K-12, higher education, and the EdTech industry. Many people often think that educational technology professionals merely

Larian Nkomo 05/06/202423/07/2024 Invited Reflections, Uncategorized Read more

“Surely the most important thing is learning, rather than teaching.”

“Surely the most important thing is learning, rather than teaching.”

  Context is oftentimes important. For this discussion, I was in a room of early and mid-career university academics with a shared, nascent interest in the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL).  We all worked at a large, research-intensive university

Larian Nkomo 03/01/202416/02/2024 Invited Reflections, Thoughts Read more

Bridging Design Prototypes (BDPs) – A design tool to resource sustainable, equitable, flexible learning

Bridging Design Prototypes (BDPs) – A design tool to resource sustainable, equitable, flexible learning

For sustainable and equitable education in a flexible online distance classroom, design of learning resources should start with understanding needs, wants, and context of each member of a classroom community. So, teaching staff and students can relate to each other

Larian Nkomo 05/12/202316/02/2024 Invited Reflections Read more

Everyone could climb a tree

People ascending towards the light

  This is a well-known quote since a long time ago, however, it seems that such judgment is still going strong in our current education setting simply because there is an unspoken rule that higher education is not for everyone,

Larian Nkomo 27/10/202316/02/2024 Invited Reflections, Thoughts Read more

Yes we can!” – Digital Education for Better Futures: Reflections and thoughts from EDEN 2023 in Dublin

Yes we can!” – Digital Education for Better Futures: Reflections and thoughts from EDEN 2023 in Dublin

The 2023 EDEN conference (18-20 June 2023) at Dublin City University (DCU), explored the theme, “Yes we can!” – Digital Education for Better Futures. This theme focused on the language of opportunity and challenged participants to dream big. With 324 participants from

Larian Nkomo 10/10/202316/02/2024 Invited Reflections, Thoughts Read more

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