Digital futures for learning : speculative methods and pedagogies

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Digital Futures for Learning offers a methodological and pedagogical way forward for researchers and educators who want to work imaginatively with "what’s next" in higher education and informal learning. Today’s debates around technological transformations of social, cultural and educational spaces and practices need to be informed by a more critical understanding of how visions of the future of learning are made and used, and how they come to be seen as desirable, inevitable or impossible. Integrating innovative methods, key research findings, engaging theories and creative pedagogies across multiple disciplines, this book argues for and explores speculative approaches to researching and analysing post-compulsory and informal learning futures – where we are, where we might go and how to get there. Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Part 1: Understanding learning futures Chapter 1: Introduction A learning future Educational technology and learning futures The future, multiple futures and critical futures Speculative methods and pedagogies My commitments and position Structure of this book Notes References Chapter 2: How learning futures are made Introduction Sociotechnical and edtech imaginaries Anticipation and mobilising the future in the present Futures that count: promissory organisations and data-driven future-making Promissory organisations Data-driven future-making Futures work as a site of critical engagement Notes References Chapter 3: Complexity, emergence and learning futures Introduction Understanding the world as complex Learning as relational, indeterminate and contingent From causality to complexity: digital education research Not-yetness Becoming, complexity and learning futures Notes References Chapter 4: Speculative approaches to research and teaching Introduction Temporality and speculative method Epistemology and speculative method Engagement, performativity and speculative method Speculation in practice: examples from research and teaching Researching digital education speculatively Teaching with speculative methods Notes References Part 2: Speculative objects to think with Objects-to-think-with Ten years of speculation: introducing the case studies Chapter 5: Teaching at scale, automation and a speculative teacherbot Introduction Online teaching at scale and automation: a short history of EDCMOOC “We welcome our robot colleagues”: teacherbot and automated teaching Glitches as speculative interruptions: teacherbot goes live Speculation beyond the glitch Teacherbot futures Notes References Chapter 6: Working with digital futures for learning through student-generated open educational resources Introduction Open educational resources, practices and a continuum of openness The Digital Futures for Learning course Co-creating futures: the OER assignment Grappling with edtech imaginaries Entangled workplace learning futures Engaging with complexity Speculative pedagogy through student-generated OERs Notes References Chapter 7: Artcasting and digital cultural heritage engagement futures Introduction Digital engagement, digital cultural heritage Technology-mediated engagement in the museum Engagement with digital cultural heritage Value and evaluation: measuring engagement with cultural heritage The Artcasting project Artcasting as a speculative method Artcasting and heritage engagement futures Notes References Chapter 8: Telling data stories to explore the future of surveillance Introduction Surveillance in the digital university Higher education after surveillance and the Data Stories project Making a speculative Data Stories Creator Stories about surveillance futures Resisting resignation: participatory speculative fiction and surveillance futures Notes References Part 3: Keeping learning futures moving Chapter 9: Speculative methods and digital futures research Introduction Asking questions about the future Objects-to-think-with Participation in a speculative encounter Capturing and analysing speculative data The ethics of speculative approaches Speculative research and truth claims An example speculative project: inventive self-presentation Conclusion Notes References Chapter 10: Speculative pedagogies and teaching Introduction Speculative course design Supporting futures work Participation, ethics and assessment Informal learning, speculatively Futures teaching case study: culture, heritage and learning futures Conclusion Note References Chapter 11: Keeping learning futures moving Key messages from this book What next? Hope for the future in challenging times References Index