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Academic literacies in the digital university
Mary Lea & Robin Goodfellow
Institute of Educational Technology
Open University
Seminar 1 Edinburgh University October 16 2009
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Outline of the talk
• The Academic Literacies perspective
• Focus on ‘the digital’
• Evidence from the Digital Literacies in Higher Education project
• Methodological issues
• Discussion
Seminar 1 Edinburgh University October 16 2009
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The Academic Literacies perspective
• Literacies as social and cultural practice
• Focus on texts in academic settings
• Digital communication as textual practice
Seminar 1 Edinburgh University October 16 2009
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Discourses of the digital
• The digital native/net generation
• Learning 2.0
• The ‘unbundled’ university
Seminar 1 Edinburgh University October 16 2009
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Digital Literacies in Higher Educationhttp://digital-literacies.open.ac.uk/home.cfm
• Ethnographic-style
• Drawing on academic literacies research
• 3 institutions – diverse HE contexts
• 45-32 students
• Smalltown (14) Northcity (11) Centrecity (7)
• Data includes: interview transcripts, field notes, web pages (social/ curriculum based), personal development plans, students own work (group and individual), photos
• Rich, diverse, hybrid, across media, multimodal
Seminar 1 Edinburgh University October 16 2009
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A case study• Texts, technologies and digital literacy
practices
• Digital literacies and the institutional context
• Diversity of resources for knowledge making
Seminar 1 Edinburgh University October 16 2009
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Seminar 1 Edinburgh University October 16 2009
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Seminar 1 Edinburgh University October 16 2009
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Seminar 1 Edinburgh University October 16 2009
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Seminar 1 Edinburgh University October 16 2009
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Seminar 1 Edinburgh University October 16 2009
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Seminar 1 Edinburgh University October 16 2009
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Seminar 1 Edinburgh University October 16 2009
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The presence of ‘the academic’ in digital literacy practices
• Tasks represented as genres of writing
• Knowledge represented as critical, analytical, argumentative
• Researching the relation between ‘the institution’, ‘the academic’, and ‘the learner’ in digital contexts
Seminar 1 Edinburgh University October 16 2009
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Methodological Issues
• What counts as observation in ‘virtual ethnography’?
• What counts as data? Where does collection end and analysis begin?
• Issues of anonymity, ethics and representation
Seminar 1 Edinburgh University October 16 2009