Methodological innovation in adult learner choice-making research: a presentation on locally deployed multi-agent AI systems
Presented virtually at the HERDSA Annual Conference 2026 (Singapore, 7 July), as part of the ongoing Learning Choice Tracker (LCT) programme. Adult learning choices are rarely a single decision point — they’re layered, non-linear, and only partially accessible in retrospect. Semi-structured interviews help, but rely heavily on the researcher’s post-hoc reconstruction, which creates analytic lag…
A Learning Commons Beyond Institutional Ownership
Institutions may remain useful nodes in education. The error is allowing the node to become the purpose. Drawing on experience across vocational, community and higher education, this essay proposes a distributed learning commons in which learners retain continuity across settings, educators steward relationships rather than merely deliver products, and accountability demonstrates public and learner benefit…
Journey Travelled
Reflecting on the experiences and circumstances of my friends and colleagues gives me cause to think deeply-particularly as I see some who have or are retiring, or have taken other life directions. All this as I recently embarked on a new (academic) career, far from my origins (philosophically and physically) and later in life than…
Podcasts
An excerpt from my thinking midway through my PhD research-signals the birth of my shift to pragmatism and semiotics – choicemaking-our muse
Pages (2011-2020)
Lifelong Learning (Research) as a Struggle
Dilemmas of Research
Communication Across Cultures
Twitter and SMS in the 1970s – cross generation communication?
Technology – Slave or Service?
Measures – Why Not and Why?
Zen and the art of… gardening?
Striving… then… gone!
Sustainable and Changeable? Luck
What is Truth?
Dr Michael J Henderson 