Two billion Facebook users, 1.5 billion YouTube users, 800 million Instagram users. On a single day we produce 525 million tweets, upload 54 million photos, and watch five billion videos. The scale and ubiquity of social media presents education with opportunities and challenges raising urgent questions of theory, methods and practice. We are proposing an … Continue reading The Social Media and Education Study Group
Entering the Next Decade of Youth Literature and Beyond
The Race, Empire and Education (REE) Collective at the University of Cambridge’s Faculty of Education, in association with Researchers Exploring Inclusive Youth Literature (REIYL), invite you to attend an event with author, editor, and poet Kwame Alexander (see attached poster). On the 28th of February, Mr. Alexander will be presenting, “Entering the Next Decade of Youth Literature … Continue reading Entering the Next Decade of Youth Literature and Beyond
The Transformation of Higher Education: Acceleration, Platformisation and Digitalisation
Friday, 03 April 2020, 11am-5pm in London, UK Register online here: https://www.srhe.ac.uk/events/details.asp?eid=456 There is widespread agreement that universities are undergoing a profound transformation but much less agreement on what these changes mean and how we should characterise them. The Digital University Network has stressed the role of new technologies in transforming practice within the university. … Continue reading The Transformation of Higher Education: Acceleration, Platformisation and Digitalisation
The Public Sociologist in Authoritarian Times: Negotiating Risk and Complicity
Lakshmi Sagarika Bose at the Wolfson Education Society Wolfson College Chancellors Centre Syndicate room 2, 17:45-19:00 (refreshments from 17:30) The confluence of rising authoritarianism and constricting levels of academic freedom highlight the necessity of contending with emerging questions on the political role of the academic in the face of widespread illiberal trends. Increasing arrests and … Continue reading The Public Sociologist in Authoritarian Times: Negotiating Risk and Complicity
Digitalisation, Assetization and the Future of Value in Higher Education
This seminar on Feb 20th from our external member Janja Komljenovic will be of interest to some of our followers. Find out more and register here: Higher education is transforming into an industry consisting of diverse, multiple and variegated markets in which universities are both sellers and buyers of products and services. There is also … Continue reading Digitalisation, Assetization and the Future of Value in Higher Education
