Manifesto for Teaching Online...book launch

In the coming weeks I will be contributing, alongside colleagues from the MSc in Digital Education, towards the launch of our new book about the Manifesto for Teaching Online. The book is published by MIT Press and is available in a range of formats from the beginning of September. Three seminar events will take place where we will discuss different statements from the Manifesto: 

Recoding - 16th September

• 'Online courses are prone to cultures of surveillance. Visibility is a pedagogical and ethical issue.' with Jen Ross
• 'Algorithms and analytics re-code education: pay attention!' with Jeremy Knox
• 'Online teaching need not be complicit with the instrumentalisation of education.' with Peter Evans

We are glad to be joined by Neil Selwyn (Monash University) as the discussant for this session.

We are the campus - 7th October

• 'Don’t succumb to campus envy: we are the campus.' with Sian Bayne
• 'Distance is temporal, affective, political: not simply spatial.' with Philippa Sheail
• 'Online can be the privileged mode. Distance is a positive principle, not a deficit.' with Christine Sinclair

We are glad to be joined by Rebecca Eynon (Oxford University) as the discussant for this session.

Text has been troubled - 15th October

• 'Text has been troubled: many modes matter in representing academic knowledge.' with James Lamb
• 'A routine of plagiarism detection structures-in distrust.' with Hamish Macleod.
• 'Can we stop talking about digital natives?' with Rory Ewins

We are glad to be joined by Amy Collier (Middlebury College) as the discussant for this session.

Further details of these events (which will take place in Zoom), including how to sign up, can be found here.  Each of the sessions will involve three lightning talks by members of our team, with an overview provided by a key voice within the field of digital education. There will also be an opportunity for synchronous commenting and discussion around the different ideas we present.