Some good articles in this special issue on 'Expanding the Boundaries of Digital Inclusion: Perspectives From Network Peripheries and Non-Adopters', including one from my #Makerere colleagues and I on #digital inclusion for #refugees in #Uganda. All open access. https://www.cogitatiopress.com/socialinclusion/issue/view/357 #digitaleducation #mscde

SI call for papers: Connected Learning in Contexts of #ForcedDisplacement edited by Dr Koula Charitonos (#OpenUniversity) and Dr Rovincer Najjuma (#Makerere University) and me (#Edinburgh). Abstracts due 1 September. https://www.de.ed.ac.uk/sites/default/files/2023-06/Connected%20Learning%20CFP%20-%20Pub.docx%20%281%29-MAR.pdf #blendedlearning #digital #education #refugees

#CFP on Connected Learning in Contexts of #ForcedDisplacement that I am editing with colleagues from #OpenUniversity and #Makerere. Connected learning for #refugees and #IDP is essentially an approximation of #blendedlearning. All are welcome, practitioners and academics. Abstracts due 1 September so plenty of time.

https://www.de.ed.ac.uk/sites/default/files/2023-06/Connected%20Learning%20CFP%20-%20Pub.docx%20%281%29-MAR.pdf

Online seminar 20 April on #Refugee participation in higher education in #Uganda: the nexus of brokers, barriers, and the digital. Speakers are Dr Rovincer Najjuma and Dr Rebecca Nambi, both of #Makerere University, and me (of the University of #Edinburgh). All welcome. Findings from a project (2020-2022) that will carry forward to another project (2023-2025) on co-creating inclusion strategies with Ugandan unis.
#UNHCR #CLCC #digital #education

Scholarships for the MSc in Digital Education for staff from #Makerere #Bugema #Gulu #Kyambogo #Nkumba and #Uganda Martyr’s University (#Nkozi) https://news.mak.ac.ug/2023/01/scholarships-for-the-msc-in-digital-education/

My incredible colleagues from #Makerere University, Dr Rovincer Najjuma and Dr Rebecca Nambi, at Kyangwali settlement doing more work to integrate refugee students into higher education. #uganda