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STUDENT ENGAGEMENT IN THE DIGITAL UNIVERSITY : Sociomaterial Assemblages
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viii, 164 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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9781138125384
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Student Engagement in the Digital University challenges mainstream conceptions and assumptions about students& #x2019; 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
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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.


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Lesley Gourlay is Head of the Department of Culture, Communication and Media and Reader in Education and Technology at the Institute of Education, University College London, UK. She is Co-Convener of the Society for Research into Higher Education's UK-wide Digital University Network, and Executive Editor for the journal Teaching in Higher Education.

Martin Oliver is Professor of Education and Technology and the Head of the Centre for Doctoral Education at the Institute of Education, University College London, UK. He has edited the journals Research in Learning Technology and Learning, Media and Technology , and is Past President of the Association for Learning Technology.