Research & Teaching
I am one of the founders and Lead Researcher of the NextEd programme, which seeks to facilitate the development of a worldwide virtual collaborative educational network. There is little doubt that Web 2.0 environments will be used more and more for education in the future, as such I spend increasing amounts of my time engaging students in these virtual environments through a variety of personas from the “real” Craig Blewett through to IM, Twitter etc IDs of craigblewett, to the virtual persona Cee Beattie.
My primary research area is the application of technology, and more specifically Web2.0 technology, to learning and business. See here for a list of my books, publications, awards and publicity .
Teaching
I am a Senior Lecturer at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, in the School of Information Systems & Technology. I have been involved in Higher Education for the past 20 years and I have a keen interest in the convergence of Educational theory and Technological platforms. I am currently lecturing postgrad courses in Computer Mediated Communication (1st Semester) and Special Topics (2nd Semester). Both of these courses make extensive use of Web 2.0 technologies either as part of the course content and/or as part of the supporting teaching approach. The Special Topics course was the first course offered in South Africa that was entirely virtual and involved international lecturers and international virtual teams.
TEDxUKZN Presentation
Intro to Exciting NextEd Project
Contact Information
University of KwaZulu-Natal
School of Information Systems & Technology
Room Number: 125
Building: J Block
Campus: Westville
Email Address: blewett@ukzn.ac.za
Work Phone: +27 (0)31-260-2161
Second Life: Cee Beattie
IM: Skype, MSN - craigblewett
Microblogs:
- www.twitter.com/klihk
- www.twitter.com/craigblewett
LinkedIn: craigblewett
Website: www.nexted.info
Downloads
| special_topics_brochure.pdf |
| cmc_poster_2008v2.pdf |
| nexted_vision.pdf |
