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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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Recent updates…

International 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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Mike’s paper at NLC 2024 Malta

How does your research methodology impact methods? This blog has been rather quiet for various reasons but, as we are cruising towards the next Networked Learning Conference (NLC), the time is ripe (if not very overdue) to share some media, including the video (poor sound though sorry), from my ‘short paper’ presentation in Malta 2024,…

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Felicity’s book, Mike’s (free) seminar

With higher education’s funding in a mess, Felicity and I continue giving ‘side of the desk’ attention to hanfod.NL (i.e., for free) but now without the supporting infrastructure of an academic post. Nevertheless, we’re still committed to the field, and the ground we broke up for ourselves:

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