Student engagement in the digital university : sociomaterial assemblages / Lesley Gourlay and Martin Oliver.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gourlay, Lesley, author.

Oliver, Martin, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

College students--Social conditions.

College students.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (172 pages)

online

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : Routledge, 2018.

Summary:

"Student Engagement in the Digital University challenges mainstream conceptions and assumptions about students' engagement with digital resources in higher education. While engagement in online learning environments is often reduced to sets of transferable skills or typological categories, the authors propose that these experiences must be understood as embodied, socially situated, and taking place in complex networks of human and nonhuman actors. Using empirical data from a JISC-funded project on digital literacies, this book performs a sociomaterial analysis of student-technology interactions, complicating the optimistic and utopian narratives surrounding technology and education today and positing far-reaching implications for research, policy and practice."--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction

Digital hype, myths, and fantasies

Hidden texts and the digital invisible

The trouble with frameworks

Researching digital engagement

Entanglements with the digital

Nonhuman actors, materiality, and embodiment

Beyond context

Fluid assemblages and resilience

The organisation as assemblage

The assemblage as lens.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-317-29827-6

1-138-12539-3

1-317-29826-8

OCLC:

1019651094