Costa, C., Murphy, M. , Pereira, A. L. and Taylor, Y. (2018) Higher education students’ experiences of digital learning and (dis)empowerment. Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 34(3), pp. 140-152. (doi: 10.14742/ajet.3979)
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Abstract
This paper focuses on learning practices in higher education in relation to a digital participatory culture. Using key principles of critical education, the research set out to explore higher education students’ sense of agency online – or lack of it –as part of their formal learning practices. The research found that although students were proficient Web users, they did not exercise their learner agency beyond what they assumed to be expected of them, thus evidencing the stability of their learning habitus in relation to the learning conventions associated with the academic field. Perhaps more surprisingly, however, is students’ perception of the Web not only as a space of student participation, but also as a space of student surveillance. Such perceptions constitute real obstacles to meaningful participation as a form learning.
Item Type: | Articles |
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Status: | Published |
Refereed: | Yes |
Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: | Murphy, Dr Mark |
Authors: | Costa, C., Murphy, M., Pereira, A. L., and Taylor, Y. |
College/School: | College of Social Sciences > School of Education > Robert Owen Centre College of Social Sciences > School of Education > Educational Leadership & Policy |
Journal Name: | Australasian Journal of Educational Technology |
Publisher: | Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education |
ISSN: | 1449-3098 |
ISSN (Online): | 1449-5554 |
Copyright Holders: | Copyright © 2018 Australasian Journal of Educational Technology |
First Published: | First published in Australasian Journal of Educational Technology 34(3):140-152 |
Publisher Policy: | Reproduced with the permission of the publisher |
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