Croeso i hanfod.NL!!
Welcome to hanfod.NL!!
We are a small scholarly society aiming to promote and explore the application of phenomenology within educational technology practice and research.
About our name: “hanfod” is Cymraeg for essence, or to originate from; whereas “NL” stands for networked learning (we are a node of the NL Conference).
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MJ visit to NOUN in Abuja
We are very grateful to Prof. Bridget A.M. Yakubu (Directorate of Advancement & Linkages [DAL]) for giving us a few minutes of her and her colleagues valuable time earlier today at the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN). Mike traveled to Abuja, Nigeria, for his daughter’s legal marriage ceremony (photos on his flickr site). While…
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Guardians of the Lifeworld: From Brussels to What Comes Next
There is a tradition now at hanfod.NL of bringing phenomenology to the Networked Learning Conference with a little orange accompaniment. It began with our hNL21 node event in 2021, followed by orange beanies and badges at NLC Sundsvall in 2022, where we celebrated our double symposium and the collaborators who helped make it possible. In…
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NLC2026 Brussels Phenomenological Papers
I’ve made it to Kings Cross in plenty of time for getting some rest before the pre-dawn Eurotunnel to Brussels. Rather gloomy here but it’s apparently ‘light rain’ in Brussels. I made a list of the four papers being presented this year featuring phenomenological methods to stick on my trusty hanfod.NL roller-banner. Thought I would…
Keep readingInternational collaboration continues to open interesting spaces for phenomenological work in HE
A recent media byte from the University of Malta describes how the Masters in Open and Networked Higher Education (MONHE) programme is integrating Felicity’s Cards of Insight framework into the study-unit Reflective Practices (ACA5062). The framework emerges from her hermeneutic phenomenological research into higher-order thinking in higher education and is being used within the programme…
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