Journal article
Introduction
Learning and teaching, v 9(2)
01 Jun 2016
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Abstract
This special issue focuses on new social media in higher education and the dialectical tension they generate between knowledge as information and knowledge as a creative, social process. There is a long history of using new media in higher education, and their introduction has often been associated with a renewed social purpose for the sector. Now that new social media such as Facebook, streamed lectures, TED Talks, MOOCs, Moodle and other Content Management Systems are becoming widespread, this special issue questions their potential impact on teaching and learning in higher education. Do these media fulfil some administrators' dream of reorganising higher education in terms of economic rationality and inexpensive reusable learning modules? Or do they open up new spaces for creativity, critical thinking and social change?
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- Title
- Introduction
- Creators
- Wesley ShumarSusan Wright
- Publication Details
- Learning and teaching, v 9(2)
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books and Journals; Oxford
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Communication
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000387792800001
- Other Identifier
- 991014878478904721
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