Student Engagement in the Digital Universitychallenges mainstream conceptions and assumptions about students engagement with digital resources in Higher Education. While engagement in online learning environments is often reduced to sets of transferable skills or typological categories, the authors propose that these experiences must be understood as embodied, socially situated, and taking place in complex networks of human and nonhuman actors. Using empirical data from a JISC-funded project on digital literacies, this book performs a sociomaterial analysis of studenttechnology interactions, complicating the optimistic and utopian narratives surrounding technology and education today and positing far-reaching implications for research, policy and practice.
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Digital Hype, Myths and Fantasies
Chapter 3: Hidden Texts and the Digital Invisible
Chapter 4: The Trouble with Frameworks
Chapter 5: Researching Digital Engagement
Chapter 6: Entanglements with the Digital
Chapter 7: Nonhuman Actors, Materiality and Embodiment
Chapter 8: Beyond Context
Chapter 9: Fluid Assemblages and Resilience
Chapter 10: The Organisation as Assemblage
Chapter 11: The Assemblage as Lens
Chapter 12: Conclusions
Digital literacies, the student experience, and student engagement are issues justifiably receiving a great deal of attention in fluid and fragile higher education at present. Relevant, pressing, and important issueswhy read more about them? Because this book provides a perspective out of the ordinary, refusing to simplify complex issues or homogenise students who indeed are diverse and differentiated. Providing an understanding that is inherently political and contextualised, and using real examples of embedded student practices, Gourlay and OliverlSF
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