This book offers an important overview of technology-enhanced education in Southern Africa. With original research from Malawi, Mauritius, Namibia, South Africa, Tanzania and Zimbabwe, this book provides in-depth scientific scholarship focused on the dynamic multimodal learning environments in the region. With the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic,…

This book examines and illustrates the potential of narrative technology, the integration and synthesis of storytelling and digital media in education. Storytelling is a foundational and powerful process in all learning and teaching, and technology is becoming ever more ubiquitous and sophisticated, particularly in its capabilities to mediate and…

This book broadens the scope and impact of digital storytelling in higher education. It outlines how to teach, research and build communities in tertiary institutions through the particular form of audio-visual communication known as digital storytelling by developing relationships across professions, workplaces and civil society. The book is…

Lindvig addresses the concern that minority-ethnic users of child welfare services in Norway lack the opportunity to express themselves in literature and public debate. This situation presents ethical and methodological challenges, and it is problematic for a democratic society when research does not give voice to ethnic minorities. Building on…

The chapter addresses how identity is captured in stories about who we are as individuals, who we are as members of organisations--and the relationship between the two. Dr. Moss uses the concept of identity regulation within organisations as a dialectic process of organisational control and micro-emancipation. Identity regulation can also be seen…

This chapter describes the development of a collaborative digital storytelling research project for exploring the lives of disabled people. Literature on the geographies of emotion and affect informs an analysis of vignettes of three workshop participants whose co-created digital stories demonstrate workshops as performed spaces of care and…

Thompson Long and Hall focus on the design of digital storytelling to augment reflective practice among our pre-service teachers. Second-order levels of reflection, coupled with the use of digital storytelling as critical incident analysis, enhanced students' capacity for deep reflection on their learning from practice and placement experience in…

Drawing on a decade of extensive digital storytelling at University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC), experienced faculty practitioners have expanded story work beyond traditional personal narratives into community engagement and public scholarship projects. While social and civic aspirations have been present in the work of Joe Lambert and…

Larsson, an experienced research journalist, shares her experience of producing digital stories for research dissemination on behalf of researchers. The purpose is to investigate the merits and challenges of a personal multimodal story approach, in a context where a professional produces the final product. Based on interviews with the storytelling…

Gachago and Sykes highlight important and interesting ethical questions raised by the introduction of digital storytelling into the higher education classroom. Against the background of pre-service teacher education at a South African university, Gachago and Sykes reflect on a series of "snapshots" or anecdotes that highlight the tension…

A Scholarship of Integration helps learners and teachers make sense of higher education. The separation of higher education from people's lifeworlds has historical roots. Knowledge production accelerates and makes it increasingly difficult for students to get an oversight, develop ethical norms and judgements and feel in control of their…

Community-engaged educators have incorporated digital storytelling into academic courses and public workshops for over two decades. Reflecting on their own praxes, Hessler and Lambert invite facilitators and researchers to deepen current discussions about digital storytelling as a transformative pedagogy and as a form of critically reflective…

Written from a health-care perspective, the focus of this chapter is to discuss the evolving role of digital storytelling, as a research method. The chapter explores how digital stories can be viewed as a qualitative response to the "big data" approaches to research which are critical in the information age. It will suggest ways in which…

Jenkins discusses the use of digital storytelling (DS) with older people within the context of the education of students in Higher Education, who are training to work with older people in health or social work settings. Jenkins draws upon humanistic gerontology and its focus on narrative-based research methods as essential to learning about ageing…

This chapter centres co-creative scriptwriting and the intellectual and aesthetic labour of two research practitioners as a means to explore digital storytelling as a form of engaged scholarship. It draws from research with asylum seekers and refugees in Ireland that advanced a longitudinal (four years) and inquiry-based approach to digital…