A one day seminar hosted by the Digital Education group in the School of Education, University of Edinburgh and the School of Education, University of Stirling, and supported by funding from the journal Pedagogy, Culture and Society and SRHE.
Computing technologies play powerful roles in shaping the substance and relations of digital education, the possibilities, limits and imaginings over which can be diverse. And while the possibilities for software may be endlessly extendable, as some have argued, as educators we have judgements to make about their educational value and desirability. Theoretical work helps us to understand and postulate the ethical and political as well as practical possibilities. However, while such theoretical work has burgeoned in parts of the social sciences, in particular in the emerging area of software studies, among sociologists, geographers and STS researchers, it has received much less attention among educational researchers.
The focus of this symposium is therefore on:
- exploring different theorising of technology within digital university practices
- the extent to which there are or could be specifically educational theories
- the implications for research and practice of different theoretical framings
Speakers:
The Distributed Online Collaborative Course (DOCC): Toward an accessible, open, accountable, transformative and transforming feminist university of our dreams
Alexandra Juhasz, Professor of Media Studies, Pitzer College
Calculating academics: theorizing the algorithmic organization of the digital university
Ben Williamson, Lecturer, School of Education, University of Stirling
From the (Online) Lecture to the (E)Textbook: Education as always-already Technological
Event Fee(s) | |
Guest Price | £60.00 |
Member Price | £0.00 |
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