Yearly Archives: 2008
Presentation: "Discursive Psychology and Web 2.0 Technology"
I recently had the pleasure of giving a presentation at the Centre for Social Innovation in Vienna. The title of my presentation was “Discursive Psychology and Web 2.0 Technology: Investigating Web 2.0 in Education.” A copy of the PowerPoint used … Continue reading
The Mediatic Turn: Exploring Concepts in Media Pedagogy
Here’s a paper that I wrote together with an Austrian colleague, Theo Hug as a chapter inMediatization: Concept, Changes, Consequences (K.Lundby, ed.). It explores the definition and practices of “media literacy” in the context of recent developments in the sociology … Continue reading
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BOOK: Re-Thinking E-Learning Research
This book, forthcoming from Peter Lang Publishers, undertakes a re-thinking of e-learning research in the light of new developments in technology, social practice and psychological theory. It both describes and enacts a range of possibilities for resesarch that are a … Continue reading
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Wikiversity; or Education meets the Free Culture Movement
During the spring, I worked with Janet Hopkins (an MEd student) on a directed study examining Wikiversity, a sister project of Wikipedia. Initially in this study, Janet took a free, open, online course offered through Wikiversity, “Composing Free and Open … Continue reading
Hermeneutic Phenomenologies and new Technologies
A brief description of the mini-seminar, to be delivered in English and German on Nov. 4 & 5, 2008. Hermeneutic phenomenology, as the study of lived experience and its meanings, has had a rich and complex relationship with both the … Continue reading
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E-Learning and the Narrative Turn
Narrative interpenetrates both everyday and specialized knowledge and communication. This paper, appearing in the online journal E-Learning, uses the example of one teacher’s account of the use of blog technologies in a classroom setting to illustrate how e-learning practice and … Continue reading
Critical Theory: Ideology Critique and the Myths of E-Learning
It is commonly asserted that “knowledge,” “information,” or more abstractly, “the networked” or “the postindustrial” are eponymous for our society, age, or economy. These broad and often unquestioned assertions have significant social and political implications. They bring with them urgent … Continue reading
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