Submitted by Pamela on 10 October 2011 - 10:40pm
This post is prompted by The University Project and an invitation to share personal experiences
Let's make room for sharing our own experiences of university - as students, academics, parents, people who never went to university - and of the other places in which we've found a home for our curiosity and company in our learning.
It prompted me to think about my own experiences:
- I haven't been to a traditional university. I did an Open University degree which stretched my mind and altered my thinking, while relating strongly to my "real life".
- My ongoing nonformal studies complement what I do in practice.
- My online studies began in 2000, when I needed to start learning about International Development, in order to continue supporting the work of Peter Adetunji Oyawale.
- I've "found a home for my curiosity and company in my learning" through the Internet and through meeting people with related interests face-to-face (often thanks to the Internet).
- Meetups are a great example of the Internet leading to face to face meetings - such as 21stCenturyNetwork and School of Commoning - I like them so much I've set up a Dadamac Meetup
- I think of Minciu Sodas http://www.dadamac.net/network/minciu-sodas as the home of my post-graduate studies (along with field-work online and in Africa).
- My ongoing non-formal studies not accredited in any way but I have the evidence of digital footprints scattered around the Internet - in my own name or under Dadamac.
- I'm a learner, a teacher, a practitioner and a researcher.
- Like people working in traditional universities I share my knowledge "freely" (in order to learn more, or for the satisfaction of teaching) and I also "sell what I know" (through Dadamac Limited)