Invited Gasta presentation for Gasta Goes Global II, 13 April 2021

1. Professor Mark Brown
Dublin City University
13 April 2021
#GastaGoesGlobal
Photo by Clay Banks on Unsplash

3. 1981

4. 1981

5. Mark

7. Photo by Anna Daudelin on Unsplash
A Trojan mouse?

9. Photo by Zoltan Tasi on Unsplash

10. https://www.dashe.com/blog/preparing-for-distance-learning-a-checklist

12. Photo by Rosie Kerr on Unsplash
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13. “The Edge Effect”

15. • 7,500+ learners
• High engagement
• 54% completion rate
• 1,600+ DCU certificates
• 4.7 quality rating
• Next offering Sept 2021

17. Photo 1931 Napier Earthquake
Personal Family Tragedy
Rebuilding after a
crisis is part of what
it means to be human
• 1920 Bloody Sunday
• 1922 Irish Civil War
• 1929 Great Depression
• 1931 Napier Earthquake
• 1939 World War II
If born in 1920…

18. And will we
change the
Irish higher
education
funding model
that severely
limits new
developments in
online distance
education?

19. 2021
2021

21. A more
equitable
world will
require new
online
solutions

22. Photo by Skylar Sahakian on Unsplash

26. Go raibh maith agaibh!