Items where Author is "Davies, 2.Gareth"

The open-access digital artefact was created with the SDGs in mind. There are four taught modules, each developed by the expertise of that international lecturer(s), as follows: 1. Indigneous Research Methodologies, or 'original ways of knowing' was written by Canadian Aamjiwnaang elder and author David Plain. Through this module, Plain describes the different processes Indigneous Canadians follow to research an answer to a query or problem, and how this decolonised Worldview can bring distinct perspectives and entries into a problem. Today, at the NWH UHI, Gaidhealtachd research methods are being mapped and published as evidence of this team-created module. 2. The module Educational Research in an Online Environment was developed by Prof. Frank Rennie and Dr. Gareth Davies at the UHI. Because the funder was Canadian, Rennie and Davies were unable to receive direct salary funding for the development of this module, so I worked with a Post-graduate research student in eLearning, Thu Le, from Vietnam, who acted as their researcher and writer. As a result, the content was all published within the same year, 2021-2022, making it extremely current, and with the bilingual help of Thu Le, it also crossed three continents. For those wishing to train new Pgs in online research, this is an excellent module that can be exported. 3. Stewardship in education, and particularly food security, is of premier importance to Prof. Clinton Beckford of Jamaica and his research student Loretta Sbrocca. If you are working in sustainability, this module serves to address most of the SDG research in the area. It also provides readings from one of the World's experts in race-conscious education and place-based food security. Prof. Beckford and I travelled several institutional battles together, and for those that have served on international research teams, this module serves as a model of community communication. 4. Where would open-access learning, or global stewardship be without reciprocity? The final taught module in this developed digital artefact is, Educational change and Reciprocal learning, led by Prof. Shijing Xu and her international research team. Xu is an expert in how classes, and educational groups, can exchange knowledge reciprocally. This module not only covers how educational research exchange typically manifests itself between international groups, but also what types of information is likely to be disseminated and exchanged when a group from SE China, for example, spends working time with a group from Ontario, Canada. Anyone who wishes to know how knowledge moves, should read this module.