Reaction! (Manifesto for Teaching Online)

The Manifesto for Teaching Online  is a series of short statements created by the Digital Education group at the University of Edinburgh. The Manifesto articulates a position about online education that informs the work of the Digital Education group (of which I am part) and the MSc in Digital Education programme it leads.

Earlier today (1 November 2016) my colleague Siân Bayne (Professor and Personal Chair of Digital Education) spoke about the Manifesto during her keynote presentation to the Next Generation: Digital Learning Research Symposium​ being held by National Institute for Digital Learning in Dublin City University. Within her keynote Siân showed a short video that I prepared to support the Manifesto. As I sat at the back of an Architecture class this morning (as part of my Doctoral research into multimodal assessment) I sensed from the flurry of Twitter-notifications lighting up my phone that the Manifesto has attracted some interest. 

I have since looked back through an impressively lengthy conference hashtag to pull together some of the responses to the Manifesto. The Manifesto was always intended to be provocative and to encourage reflection and debate therefore it has been intriguing to see how different statements from the Manifesto resonated across the audience. I'll let the Twitter commentary speak for itself.

#NextGenDL @sbayne takes to the stage at @DublinCityUni to talk about the wonderful 'Manifesto for Teaching Online' https://t.co/jhlykShoAf

— Mary Loftus (@marloft) November 1, 2016

Distance is temporal, affective, political, not just spatial. Thoughts from @sbayne #nextgendl

— Dr Briony Supple (@babybee333) November 1, 2016

'We are the campus' re distance learners is also useful to challenge to Teresa May's 'citizen of the world=citizen of nowhere' #nextgenDL

— louisedrumm (@louisedrumm) November 1, 2016

#NextGenDL 'The Manifesto for Teaching Online' - the video shared by @sbayne - a thought-provoking few minutes https://t.co/E9Nik944BF

— Mary Loftus (@marloft) November 1, 2016

"Online teaching should not be downgraded to facilitation" #nextgendl

— Gavin Henrick (@ghenrick) November 1, 2016

https://t.co/Vxqbmnviv1 Edinburgh in Dublin - growth of a manifesto #nextgendl

— Clare Thomson (@ClareThomsonQUB) November 1, 2016

A must read! Also has link to video https:/onlineteachingmanifesto.wordpress.com @johbees @tomomara @id_ucc #nextgenDL

— Dr Briony Supple (@babybee333) November 1, 2016

#nextgendl @sbayne - 'Don't succumb to campus envy. We are the campus'

— Mary Loftus (@marloft) November 1, 2016

Richly layered, thought provoking keynote from @sbayne opening #NextGenDL “The Manifesto for Teaching Online” https://t.co/w5NPo1itlK

— Stuart Johnson (@stjlaex) November 1, 2016

*fabulous* video being shown by @sbayne - so many takeaways #nextgendl #esaidl

— Enda (@donenda) November 1, 2016

Asking □ questions @sbayne @NIDL_DCU #nextgenDL pic.twitter.com/hMI8fvKoli

— DDLETB (@ddletb) November 1, 2016

Prob my fav point from @sbayne & @EdinburghUni's manifesto for teaching online: Distance is a positive principle, not a deficit #nextgenDL

— James Brunton (@DrJamesBrunton) November 1, 2016

"Need to attend to the materialities of digital education. The social isn't the whole story" - @sbayne #nextgendl

— Gavin Henrick (@ghenrick) November 1, 2016

#NextGenDL @cesitweets manifesto as a call to attention

— Adrienne Webb (@dublinwebb) November 1, 2016

"Algorithms and analytics re-code education: pay attention", one point from the @EdinburghUni Manifesto for Online Learning #nextgenDL

— Barry Ryan (@CBS_Lecturer) November 1, 2016

"We welcome our new robot colleagues" - @sbayne :) #nextgenDL

— Enda (@donenda) November 1, 2016

See also:
The Manifesto for Teaching Online (video)
​Remixing the nature of authorship