ONLINE POSTGRADUATE EDUCATION IN A POSTDIGITAL WORLD: BEYOND TECHNOLOGY
What is it?
Online Postgraduate Education in a Postdigital World uses case studies to highlight the social and physical aspects of online postgraduate programmes.
The edited volume builds upon the premise that online learning is not separate from the social and material world, and is made up of embodied, socially-meaningful experiences. It is founded on a “postdigital” perspective in which, much more than interactions with keyboards, computer screens, hardware or software, the learning that happens on online postgraduate programmes spills out into professional and informal settings, making connections with what comes before and after any formally-scheduled tasks.
Online Postgraduate Education in a Postdigital World uses case studies to highlight the social and physical aspects of online postgraduate programmes.
The edited volume builds upon the premise that online learning is not separate from the social and material world, and is made up of embodied, socially-meaningful experiences. It is founded on a “postdigital” perspective in which, much more than interactions with keyboards, computer screens, hardware or software, the learning that happens on online postgraduate programmes spills out into professional and informal settings, making connections with what comes before and after any formally-scheduled tasks.
Who is it for?
Teachers, curriculum designers, faculty developers and policy-makers.
Teachers, curriculum designers, faculty developers and policy-makers.
What can it do?
Unlike other books relating to online education, this book combines a theoretical perspective, in which the digital, physical and social are all interconnected within complex educational ecologies, with a focus grounded in postgraduate practice. This focus has important implications for the kinds of students and learning that are explored in the chapters of the book.
Presented are alternative views to common perceptions of online learning as non-social or as easily scalable - and theories for understanding how the goals, behaviours, technologies, environments and motivations of students.
Unlike other books relating to online education, this book combines a theoretical perspective, in which the digital, physical and social are all interconnected within complex educational ecologies, with a focus grounded in postgraduate practice. This focus has important implications for the kinds of students and learning that are explored in the chapters of the book.
Presented are alternative views to common perceptions of online learning as non-social or as easily scalable - and theories for understanding how the goals, behaviours, technologies, environments and motivations of students.
Fawns, T., Aitken, G. & Jones, D.. (2021). Online postgraduate education in a postdigital world: Beyond technology. Postdigital Science and Education, Springer.