Postgraduate Course: Learning Spaces and Digital Technologies (EDUA11443)
Course Outline
| School | Moray House School of Education and Sport |
College | College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
| Course type | Online Distance Learning |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| SCQF Credits | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
| Summary | This course considers the complex and changing relationship between technology and space, including the ways that digital resources profoundly affect the conceptualisation and construction of those settings where educational activity is performed. Combining theoretical work with practical activities, students will examine how the flow of data and proliferation of digital resources actively shape learning spaces, for instance through personalisation, mobility, commercialisation and the de-centring of the physical classroom and campus.
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| Course description |
As digital technologies have become an everyday feature of our educational surroundings, it is vital to consider how these resources shape the classroom and campus, as well as other kinds of learning spaces. A 'learning space' refers here to any setting where teaching, writing, reading or other educational activity is performed. Meanwhile, 'technology' is understood as hardware, software, digital infrastructure and the flow of data. This course will draw on the growing body of critical research around space and technology to critically evaluate how the procurement, deployment and configuration of digital technologies affects a range of learning spaces. Students will work with theories of space and technology, and will generate and analyse data, in order to evaluate and understand the complex relationship between digital resources and educational environments. This will include interrogating how space and technology are woven together with pedagogy, policy, profit and other constraints and pressures.
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Other requirements | None |
Course Delivery Information
| Not being delivered |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Use key theoretical work to conceptualise the relationship between learning spaces and technologies
- Engage critically with the growing body of published research around learning spaces, including the potentialities and conflicts associated with digital technologies
- Demonstrate a critical understanding of the varied and complex ways that digital technologies affect a range of traditional and emergent learning spaces
- Generate and critically analyse data in order to understand the relationship between digital technologies and a specific learning space
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Reading List
Acton, R. (2017). Place-people-practice-process: Using sociomateriality in university physical spaces research. Educational Philosophy and Theory, 1-11. doi: 10.1080/00131857.2017.1309637
Bayne, S., Gallagher, M. and Lamb, J. (2013) Being 'at' University: the social topologies of distance students. Higher Education. DOI: 10.1007/s10734-013- 9662-4
Boys, J. (2016). Finding the Spaces In-Between: Learning as a Social Material Practice. In L. Carvalho, P. Goodyear, & M. de Laat (Eds.), Place-based spaces for networked learning (pp. 59-72). New York: Routledge.
Carvalho, L., & Yeoman, P. (2018). Framing learning entanglement in innovative learning spaces: Connecting theory, design and practice. British Educational Research Journal. doi: 10.1002/berj.3483
Fenwick, T. (2011). Reading Educational Reform with Actor Network Theory: Fluid spaces, otherings, and ambivalences. Educational Philosophy and Theory, 43(sup1), 114-134. doi: 10.1111/j.1469-5812.2009.00609.x
Goodyear, P., Ellis, R.A. & Marmot, A. (2018) Learning Spaces Research: Framing Actionable Knowledge. In Ellis, R.A. & Goodyear, P. (Eds.) 2018. Spaces of Teaching and Learning: Integrating Perspectives on Research and Practice (pp221-230). Singapore: Springer.
Gourlay, L., & Oliver, M. (2016). Students' Physical and Digital Sites of Study: Making, Marking and Breaking Boundaries. In L. Carvalho, P. Goodyear, & M. de Laat (Eds.), Place- based spaces for networked learning (pp. 73-86). New York: Routledge.
Hamilton, E. C., & Friesen, N. (2013). Online Education: A Science and Technology Studies Perspective. Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology, 39(2)
Lamb, J. and Ross, J. (2021). Lecture capture, social topology, and the spatial and temporal arrangements of UK universities. European Educational Research Journal. pp.1-22. doi.org/10.1177/1474904121993982
Lefebvre, H. (1991) The Production of Space. Nicholson-Smith D (trans.). Malden: Blackwell Publishing.
Massey, D. (2005). For space. Thousand Oaks: SAGE Publications.
Mulcahy, D., Cleveland, B., & Aberton, H. (2015). Learning spaces and pedagogic change: envisioned, enacted and experienced. Pedagogy, Culture & Society, 23(4), 575-595. doi: 10.1080/14681366.2015.1055128 |
Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Critical and reflective thinking: the ability to critically interrogate the complex ways that digital technologies affect learning spaces and practices
Communication: the ability to effectively present academic knowledge in digital and richly multimodal ways
Research: the ability to undertake a small-scale qualitative research exercise, including the generation and analysis of visual and sonic data.
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| Keywords | learning space,education,technology,digital |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Mr James Lamb
Tel: (0131 6)51 6243
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Course secretary | Miss Amanda Gilmour
Tel: (0131 6)51 1196
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