I’m Miriam, a digital learning design specialist based in Melbourne, Australia, and a fierce defender of equity, ethics and the diversity of human experience. I’ve worked in adult education for most of my adult life, and now my aim is to explore the value of adult learning practices beyond formal education.

What I write about

I’m currently dividing my time between PhD research, teaching, learning design projects, and writing in every “spare” moment I can find.

Most of what I write here centres on learning in postdigital conditions. The “postdigital” is a way of acknowledging that, in the world we live in now, digital technologies are not separable from other aspects of human experience. We’re always either connected or awaiting connection, and the presence — even in absence — of digital technologies has profound and ongoing implications for social and political life.

If you share some of these interests, I’d love to hear from you. Connect with me on LinkedIn, send me an email, or (if you’re in academic-land too) explore my recent publications via ORCID: 0000-0002-6022-7739.

Why this blog

They say doctoral study is a lonely business, so I’m doing everything I can to build a community of like-minded education nerds. I created this site to practise my thinking and my writing, but also in the hope it might reach others with shared interests in online adult education.

My posts are philosophical, sociological, pedagogical. I try to keep them short — I think of them as sketches and studies for larger pieces as I build the theoretical foundations of my research and make sense of the cluttered ideas floating around.

Think you might enjoy something like this in your inbox once a week or so?