Digital Difference Perspectives on Online Learning

A sense of disquietude seems ever present when discussing new digital practices. The transformations incurred through these can be profound, troublesome in nature and far-reaching. Moral panics remain readily available. Discussing the manner in which digi

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EDUCATIONAL FUTURES RETHINKING THEORY AND PRACTICE Volume 50 Series Editors Michael A. Peters University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Editorial Board Michael Apple, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA Miriam David, Institute of Education, London University, UK Cushla Kapitzke, Queensland University of Technology, Australia Simon Marginson, University of Melbourne, Australia Mark Olssen, University of Surrey, UK Fazal Rizvi, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Linda Tuahwai Smith, University of Waikato, New Zealand Susan Robertson, University of Bristol, UK Scope This series maps the emergent field of educational futures. It will commission books on the futures of education in relation to the question of globalisation and knowledge economy. It seeks authors who can demonstrate their understanding of discourses of the knowledge and learning economies. It aspires to build a consistent approach to educational futures in terms of traditional methods, including scenario planning and foresight, as well as imaginative narratives, and it will examine examples of futures research in education, pedagogical experiments, new utopian thinking, and educational policy futures with a strong accent on actual policies and examples.

Digital Difference Perspectives on Online Learning Edited by

Ray Land University of Strathclyde, UK

Siân Bayne University of Edinburgh, UK

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Editors’ Preface ....................................................................................................... vii Ray Land and Siân Bayne DIGITAL SELFHOOD 1. The Purloined Email: Death, Desire and Academic Subjectivity in the Haunted University ......................................................................................3 Cate Thomas 2. Structure, Authority and Other Noncepts: Teaching in Fool-ish Spaces ............15 Hamish Macleod and Jen Ross 3. Lurking on the Threshold: Being Learners in Silent Spaces ...............................29 Maggi Savin-Baden, Christine Sinclair, Christine Sanders and Second Wind TRANSFORMATIONS 4. Difference and Discontinuity – Making Meaning Through Hypertexts .............45 Colleen McKenna and Claire McAvinia 5. Speed and the Unsettling of Knowledge in the Digital Univers