Digital and Postdigital Learning for Changing Universities

This book explores the purpose, role, and function of the university and examines the disconnection between students' approaches to learning and university strategy. It argues that universities need to have larger audiences, a broader voice, a shift away from othering, and an effective means of progressing such shifts. Learning needs to be seen as postdigital, promoting just and inclusive pedagogies, ensuring learning is an ethical and political experience, understanding community and collective values, promoting personal and collective responsibility, and challenging ideologies based on capitalist modes of consumption, privilege, and exploitation. It is essential reading for anyone seeking to reimagine the university in a postdigital age.

Format: Unspecified
Length: 290 pages
Publication date: 07 November 2023
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

The purpose, role, and function of the university are explored in this book, as well as the disconnection between students' approaches to learning and university strategy. It emphasizes the importance of exploring what counts as a university in the twenty-first century, what it is for, and for whom, as well as how it can transcend social divisions.

The universities of the twenty-first century must have larger audiences, a broader voice, a shift away from othering, and an effective means of progressing such shifts. Central to this exploration is the idea that learning needs to be seen as postdigital. The book examines how the growth of technology has and continues to affect university learning, promotes just and inclusive pedagogies for higher education, considers ways to ensure learning is an ethical and political experience, studies how to understand community and collective values through higher education, suggests ways of promoting personal and collective responsibility for our world and its peoples, and presents ways in which the university can challenge ideologies based on capitalist modes of consumption, privilege, and exploitation.

Digital and Postdigital Learning for Changing Universities is essential reading for anyone seeking to reimagine the university in a postdigital age. It challenges current assumptions and practices and encourages new ways of thinking about higher education and learning in the twenty-first century.

Weight: 730g
Dimension: 234 x 156 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781032362946