Lucila Carvalho

A Cultural History of Higher Learning How has higher learning been shaped by people, ideas and knowledge? In a work that spans 2,500 years, 67 experts chart across the social and cultural dynamics o…

More about this volume, and the other five volumes in this series here: www.bloomsbury.com/au/cultural-...

Campus, collections, and the student: a spatial ontology of the university library This article develops a framework for understanding the evolving spatial ontology of the contemporary university library. We conceptualise the library in three overlapping ways. First, as a materia...

A thoughtful and thought-provoking piece on university libraries

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@nteunion.bsky.social

I've been working with technology in HE for more than 40 years & a member of NTEU for 20. This new essay piece by Cory Doctorow is timely, readable and important. I'd recommend drawing it to the attention of every NTEU branch, today.

Postdigital (Re)Imaginations This book presents postdigital (re)imaginations of education, reframing its potential as an emancipatory practice

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Learning as Enculturation: Universalism, Particularism, and Ecologies of Knowing The background of this chapter is an interest in how learning and development have been conceptualized in western research. The argument is that the methodological ideals and theoretical frameworks ha...

Anything by Roger Säljö is worth careful reading. New open access chapter. Highly recommended.

link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

Understanding teachers’ expertise for interdisciplinary teaching practices: A scoping review This paper presents findings from a scoping review of 86 studies examining how pre-service and in-service teachers develop interdisciplinary expertise…

Our review paper on teachers’ interdisciplinary expertise now available open access. #EpistemicFluency #Interdisciplinary #Teaching

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Here's another (open access) review article that uses the #ACAD distinction between epistemic, social and set design to help organise findings. @lucilacarvalho.bsky.social @pippayeoman.bsky.social

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

A pleasing trend: reviews using the #ACAD framework. @pippayeoman.bsky.social @lucilacarvalho.bsky.social

Christina Hümmer & Regina Egetenmeyer
Design of Synchronous #Hybrid #LearningSpaces

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Co-producing knowledge in and about education by combining collaborative ethnography and abductive reasoning - Humanities and Social Sciences Communications Humanities and Social Sciences Communications - Co-producing knowledge in and about education by combining collaborative ethnography and abductive reasoning

Interesting new open access paper that takes seriously the complexities of observing and learning from classroom activities. #ACAD #TransdisciplinaryResearch #ActionableKnowledge @lucilacarvalho.bsky.social @pippayeoman.bsky.social @dewawardak.bsky.social

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Something to read on a Friday? Here is a suggestion!
With the super duo Vicki Leibowitz and Cristina Garduño Freeman for the Special Issue edited by Ingrid Forsler, Emanuele Bardone and Michael Forsman. Enjoy!
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2025 NLC Node Event in Asia 2025 NLC Node Event in Asia – Hosted by Seoul National University

'Networked Learning Research in the Post-Era' themed events begin next Wednesday, July 9, 2025, 5PM-7PM (KST) or 10AM-12PM (CEST) free online. Breaking new ground, our first node event based in Asia stars Prof. Nina Bonderup Dohn 🤩 www.networkedlearning.aau.dk/news/2025-nl...

Call for papers for the Networked Learning Conference 2026 held in Brussels - 6-8 May 2026

Call for papers for the Networked Learning Conference 2026 held in Brussels - 6-8 May 2026

Call for Papers - Networked Learning Conference 2026

We are happy to share the Call for Papers for the International Networked Learning Conference 2026. The conference will be held in Brussels 6-8 May 2026. The conference is hosted by FARI - AI for the […]

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Alternative Futures in the Postdigital Classrooms of the Global South - Postdigital Science and Education When planning a learning event, teachers will carefully craft learning tasks, while choosing specific social arrangements and selecting material and digital tools for their students. Each learning eve...

More amazing work on postdigital classrooms! link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Postdigital Science and Education | Volume 7, issue 1 Volume 7, issue 1 articles listing for Postdigital Science and Education

New Special Issue - I would not normally post a journal announvement on Saturday afternoon, but I guess that's the time when citizen scientists are most active :)
MAny thanks to Michael Jopling and Sarah Hayes for editing this great volume! link.springer.com/journal/4243...

Reimagining Citizen Research: a Postdigital Arts-Based Approach to Inclusive Research Methods - Postdigital Science and Education Left feeling isolated by the Covid-19 pandemic, artists working within Art in Motion (AIM), a participatory contemporary arts organisation operating as a collective of learning-disabled and neurodiver...

Fresh off the press! link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Thanks for sharing! Very interesting work @kate-molloy.net @slowtech2000.bsky.social

A friend asked me about the harms of Whatsapp, leading me to this four -part reply! Starting with avoidance as a political act, then what’s wrong with Meta, on to why and how metadata really matters and finally some practical suggestions
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#SadChairsOfAcademia

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Epistemic placemaking: collective reimagining of spaces for more sustainable, equitable and inclusive futures If university students can do many of their activities anywhere, how do students decide what is best done at different locations? This paper introduces the concept of ‘epistemic placemaking’ as a c...

New paper on epistemic placemaking. 50 free reprints available; first come first served.

www.tandfonline.com/eprint/VNDTX...

Epistemic placemaking: collective reimagining of spaces for more sustainable, equitable and inclusive futures If university students can do many of their activities anywhere, how do students decide what is best done at different locations? This paper introduces the concept of ‘epistemic placemaking’ as a c...

So glad for the opportunity to share ideas at the launch of HER&D Special Issue on Reimagining HE Learning Spaces edited by Sam Elkington & Jill Dickson. Our paper co authored with @petergoodyear.bsky.social and Lina Markauskaite introduces Epistemic Placemaking. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Networked Learning Networked Learning is an area of research focusing on understanding the qualities, opportunities, and challenges that connections between people and technology bring to learning and knowledge developm...

We just published several new encyclopedia articles. Today, a really important entry, on one importnat inspiration of postdigital theory link.springer.com/referencewor...

2025 Special Issue Launch ‘Reimagining Higher Education Learning Spaces' Are you interested in what the future could look like for learning spaces in Higher Education? Hear from contributors to the HERD 2025 SI.

Launch of @herdjournal.bsky.social special issue on learning spaces in #HE 29th January - hear from editors and authors.

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/2025-speci...

Innovative Study by UPenn and NYPL Finds That Public Libraries Positively Impact Community Health and Well-Being "Our research found that patrons experience refuge, joy, connection, purpose, and expansion through their library use"

"A whopping 82% of people who used the library’s physical space and 79% of people who physically attended programs reported more optimism regarding the future, compared to only 58% of digital-only users."

Our physical space and resources matter *greatly!*

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The book "Learning Design Voices" offers a rich array of views, experiences and scholarly reflections from a wide diversity of learning designers across the world.
A hidden gem. Plus it is freely available open access
edtechbooks.org/ldvoices/

Dr Jill Dickinson on LinkedIn: 2025 Special Issue Launch ‘Reimagining Higher Education Learning Spaces' It’s happening! Join us for the Launch of a new Special Issue of Higher Education Research & Development on ‘Reimagining Higher Education Learning Spaces:…

Special issue launch! Join the editors online for the launch of a new Special Issue of @herdjournal.bsky.social on ‘Reimagining Higher Education Learning Spaces: Assembling Theory, Methods, and Practice’

Wednesday 29 January 2025, 8-10am UK / 7-9pm Aus Eastern

→ www.linkedin.com/posts/jilldi...

Course design as a stronger predictor of student evaluation of quality and student engagement than teacher ratings - Higher Education Research on Student Evaluation of Teaching (SET) has indicated that course design is at least as important as teachers’ performance for student-rated perceived quality and student engagement. Our data...

New research from Sweden shows that higher ed course design is at least as important as teaching/teacher for both student engagement & student perceptions of course quality. Implication: teaching evaluation forms should ask about course design at least as much as teaching.
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Near future academic publishing – a speculative social science fiction experiment Published in Learning, Media and Technology (Vol. 49, No. 4, 2024)

What's happening to academic journal publishing now AI's in the workflow? Year-end reflections and near-future speculations from the editors of Learning, Media & Technology - @discoursology.bsky.social @johnpp.bsky.social and me doi.org/10.1080/1743...

Good luck for the presentation! And thanks for our collaborations over the years!

Summer reading!! New book arrived today - Creating Design Knowledge in Educational Innovation - a book edited by Inger-Marie Christensen, Lina Markauskaite, Nina Bonderup Dohn, @dwayneripley.bsky.social and Roland Hachmann

It’s a dark day for research in Aotearoa New Zealand and the ramifications for the country are huge. Minister Judith Collins has just announced our blue-skies funder will no longer fund humanities & social science research and that 50% of what is funded must have economic benefit.