The crisis and the response: after the dust had settled

ABSTRACT

The focus for the group was clear – it was global. Space, time, resources and chance have, however, limited the topics and the treatments they received, and so in this paper we ask: what slipped through the net, what fell between the cracks, and what alternatives were there? We also look at some topics that received only oblique or partial attention, and some that received none at all. These include the separation of online educators’ personal, professional and political ethics; alternative responses from outside the discourses of the North and West; the threat to marginal communities and indigenous cultures from the success of learning with mobiles; the particular role of mobiles within the industrialisation of higher education, and the notion of crisis itself.

KEYWORDS:

• Crisis
• industrialisation of universities
• global South
• professional ethics
• digital literacy

Notes on contributors

John Traxler is Research Professor of Digital Learning in the Institute of Education at the University of Wolverhampton. He is one of the pioneers of mobile learning, working on projects since 2001.

Vic Lally is Professor of Education and Director of the ILETS Research Group at the University of Glasgow. His main interest is human learning: its ‘design’, philosophy and ethics, as well as the cultural and political contexts of learning. Professor Lally is particularly interested in collaborative learning as a way of supporting human creativity and development.

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.

Notes

1 http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/180780?redirectedFrom=skeuomorph#eid http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-22840833.