UPEI PhD student’s research highlighted in The Guardian (UK) and Inside Higher Ed
Bonnie Stewart, a PhD student at UPEI, whose thesis explores the trend of online learning, is studying the benefits of Massive Open Online Courses (Moocs) in higher education. Her work recently garnered attention in two highly reputable news sources-The Guardian (UK) and Inside Higher Ed.
Stewart believes that online learning will complement traditional learning rather than replace it. In her articles she claims that the education sector will learn from the experiences of students who study both online and in the classroom.
'The Mooc augments my PhD studies by making it possible for me to be a public thinker and learner, by giving me up-to-the-minute access to the conversations shaping and driving my field, and the opportunity to participate in these conversations,' said Stewart in her guardian.uk article. 'Forget the business case, open online courses are about learning.'
Another of Stewart's articles, 'Learning in-and from-the Great Disruption,' was posted on Insider Higher Ed's website as part of GenX Women in Higher Ed, Writing from Across the Globe.
Stewart is also the 2011 recipient of the Joseph Armand Bombardier CGS Doctoral Scholarship valued at $105,000, and granted through the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC). She is also the recipient of the 2011 PEI Literary Award for creative non-fiction.
Stewart has been involved in higher education since 1997, and has lived and taught on all three coasts of Canada, in Eastern Europe, and Asia. Bonnie blogs her education ideas at http://theory.cribchronicles.com and her experiences on identity and parenthood at http://cribchronicles.com. Find her on Twitter at @bonstewart.
