The postdigital learning spaces of higher education – a special online conversation
24th February 2022, 9-10am (GMT)
It has never been more important to explore the relationship between learning spaces and digital technologies. The steady proliferation of digital technologies, combined with the development of online digital pedagogies, has steadily seen a decentering of the physical campus. Most recently, the imposed conditions of Covid-19 accelerated the reconceptualisation and redesign of learning spaces, as universities depended upon digital platforms and pedagogies in order to remain open while classrooms were closed to students and staff. This complex and shifting relationship between space, learning and technology was the subject of a recent Special Issue of Postdigital Science Education, guest edited by James Lamb, Michael Gallagher and Jeremy Knox from the Centre for Research in Digital Education, working with Lucila Carvalho from Massey University.
Building on the experiences and ideas captured across the Special Issue, at 9am on 24th February (UK time) we will host an online conversation between several of its authors. An outstanding panel comprising Jos Boys (University College London), Magda Pischetola (IT University of Copenhagen), Peter Goodyear (The University of Sydney), Lesley Gourlay (University College London) and Stephanie Wilson (The University of Sydney) will discuss, among things, the emergence of hybrid learning, the legacy of Covid-19 upon the classroom, how digital resources destabilise campus boundaries, and even more fundamentally, how we might configure space, technology and pedagogy to build the kind of university we desire.
If you are interested in the ways that digital technologies affect those spaces where we teach and learn, please join us for what should be a fascinating and thought-provoking conversation.
References
(from event recording)
Special Issue “The Postdigital Learning Spaces of Higher Education” https://link.springer.com/journal/42438/volumes-and-issues/4-1
Bridges, S., Chan, L., Chen, J., Tsang, J., Ganotice, F. (2020). Learning environments for interprofessional education: A micro-ethnography of sociomaterial assemblages in team-based learning. Nurse Education Today, Volume 94, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nedt.2020.104569
Cascone, K. (2000). The aesthetics of failure: ‘Post-digital’ tendencies in contemporary computer music. Computer Music Journal, 24(4), 12–18. The Aesthetics of Failure: "Post-Digital" Tendencies in Contemporary Computer Music on JSTOR
Pepperell, R., & Punt, M. (2000). The postdigital membrane: Imagination, technology and desire. Bristol: Intellect.
Nørgård, R. T. (2021). 'Theorising hybrid lifelong learning', British Journal of Educational Technology, 52, 1709–1723 https://doi.org/10.1111/bjet.13121
Sinclair, C. & Hayes, S. (2019). Between the Post and the Com-Post: Examining the Postdigital ‘Work’ of a Prefix. Postdigital Science and Education, 1, 119-131. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s42438-018-0017-4
CALL FOR PAPERS: Postdigital soundscapes: Sonics, Pedagogies, Technologies https://www.springer.com/journal/42438/updates/19267222