This edited book brings together documented evidence and theoretical propositions on the essential mediating role of digital technology in L2 teacher education and professional development. Topics range from technological affordances in teacher education, to challenges and responses to emergency transition from face to face to virtual professional…

This book analyses technology enhanced learning through the lens of Disruptive Innovation theory. The author argues that while technology has not disrupted higher education to date, it has the potential to do so. Drawing together various case studies, the book analyses established technologies through a Disruptive Innovation perspective, including…

This book sets forth a pedagogy for renewing the liberal arts by combining critical thinking, media activism, and design thinking. Using the StudioLab approach, the author seeks to democratize the social and technical practices of digital culture just as nineteenth century education sought to democratize literacy. This production of transmedia…

This book project was initiated by scholars who have practised digital storytelling in higher education over many years. The book will demonstrate that digital stories have relevance for many other dimensions of higher education and that it will illuminate how visual, auditory and emotional communication play together in the process of mediatising…

Examining cases in educational technology from computer assisted instruction to MOOCs, this volume shows how social interests frame reform programs and realign organizational and pedagogical strategies around them to produce a particular environment for change in higher education. Technology is a contingent product rather than a driver of such…

The evangelical discourse makes a claim for online education's essence in connecting it with specific directions in university reform. Critics pick up on this and identify technology with economic rationalization in higher education. But even a brief glance at its history suggests that online education is capable of varying realizations…

Toward the turn of this century, online education--put simply the integration of networked digital media and information technology into education--became the subject of great contention in universities. This contention was not simply a hidebound institution's reaction to innovations that had already permeated other areas of society; rather, it…

The paradigm of openness that emerged in online education at the turn of the millennium was articulated in line with academic culture while also incorporating technical innovations to enable change in teaching and learning. This indicates, echoing a claim made in chapter 4 [see ED613117], that technology need not represent a total transformation…

By the late 1990s, the evangelical discourse had displaced any sense that online education could be something other than a means of totalizing reform. The opposition between technology and tradition cut off a line of development through which conventional modes of education could be embodied in technology. Online education's adoption as a…