Reflecting on the FUN of esud2018 Conference and Networked Learning Cultures
1. Professor Mark Brown
Director, National Institute for Digital Learning
Dublin City University
Natal, Brazil
23rd November 2018
Networked Learning Cultures:
Reflecting on the FUN of esud2018
20. Professor Mark Brown
Director, National Institute for Digital Learning
Dublin City University
Natal, Brazil
23rd November 2018
Networked Learning Cultures:
Reflecting on the FUN of esud2018
34. F = What were the fundamental points?
U = What was most useful takeaway for you?
N = What new idea or activity does the conference
inspire you to do?
(Korthagen, 2001)
45. “It will not be possible to satisfy the rising
demand for Higher Education, especially
in developing countries, by relying on
traditional approaches.”
(Sir John Daniel, 2013)
Past President,
Commonwealth of Learning;
Previous Vice-Chancellor,
UK Open University
53. “There is also almost no understanding of the
private and social [public] benefits of distance and
online education in comparison with those of face-to-
face education” (Rumble, 2014, p.208).
Rumble, G. (2014). The costs and economics of online distance education (pp. 197-216). In O. Zawacki-Richter & T. Anderson
(Eds.). Online distance education: Towards a research agenda. Athabasca: AU Press.
54.
55. Different interest groups
and stakeholders are borrowing
the same ‘languages of
persuasion’ to legitimize very
different agenda
I’m now Ireland’s first Professor of Digital Learning and Director of the National Institute for Digital Learning based at Dublin City University. DCU is a young university with an innovative culture and mission of transforming lives and societies.