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Pedagogy Leads Technology

Pedagogy Leads Technology: Online Learning and Teaching in Higher Education: New Technologies, New Pedagogies edited by Arianne Jennifer Rourke and Kathryn Sara Coleman is now available as part of the Technology and Society series.

This book highlights research and practice where pedagogy effectively utilises as well as leads the technology in teaching, learning and assessment in higher education. The examples provided, not only highlight how teaching practice can become research, an important focus for 21st century academics, but also provides exemplary case studies and theoretical perspectives on the importance of a student-centred approach to adopting technology for teaching and learning.

This book presents leading research from around the world, grouped into the following four themes:

  1. Interactive Technologies for Learning
  2. Learning through Online Communities
  3. Online Collaborative Learning
  4. Reflecting on Reflective Practice

 

Technology Journal, Volume 7, Issue 2 now available

technology_frontThe second issue of Volume 7 of The International Journal of Technology, Knowledge and Society has now been published.

Volume 7, Issue 2 contains:

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Pedagogy Leads Technology: Online Learning and Teaching in Higher Education

 

Pedagogy Leads Technology: Online Learning and Teaching in Higher Education: New Technologies, New Pedagogies edited by Arianne Jennifer Rourke and Kathryn Sara Coleman is now available as part of the Technology and Society series.

This book highlights research and practice where pedagogy effectively utilises as well as leads the technology in teaching, learning and assessment in higher education. The examples provided, not only highlight how teaching practice can become research, an important focus for 21st century academics, but also provides exemplary case studies and theoretical perspectives on the importance of a student-centred approach to adopting technology for teaching and learning.

This book presents leading research from around the world, grouped into the following four themes:

  1. Interactive Technologies for Learning
    Deborah West; Linda E. Robinson, Robert D. Hannafin & David R. Parker; Peter Mark Jansson; Kate Thomson, Boon-Kiang Tan & Christopher Brook.
  2. Learning through Online Communities
    Carmen Pérez Basanta; Mark Mabrito; Marlo Ransdell; Trevor Nesbit.
  3. Online Collaborative Learning
    Jason Black & Lois W. Hawkes; Arianne Rourke & Kathryn Coleman; James A West.
  4. Reflecting on Reflective Practice
    Arianne Rourke & Kathryn Coleman.

 

Call for Journal Editor

The International Journal of Technology, Knowledge and Society seeks an editor, or team of editors, for a one-year term. This is an opportunity to make a significant contribution to what we believe is one of the leading journals in its field, the journal’s associated conference and, more broadly, the knowledge-community which the journal and conference seek to serve.

The roles of the editor are to:

  • write an introduction for the Journal volume which would be included in the first issue for the year, and possibly on the website, the newsletter and other appropriate places or for the purposes of marketing and promotion.
  • collate papers addressing a theme of the editor’s choosing into a book, to be launched at the conference at the completion of the editor’s term. The chapters may be drawn from submissions to the journal during this or recent years, and other material as considered appropriate.
  • actively solicit manuscripts for the Journal from well-known and notable members of the community—these would could be refereed if the author wished, or regarded as ‘invited papers’.
  • assist the Commissioning Editor with suggestions of supplementary peer reviewers for specific papers (and this will never be burdensome – note that the Commissioning Editor of the Journal finalizes a majority of the peer reviewer requirements based on thematic matching and ‘mutual obligation’ principles in which all author requested to review up to three other papers).
  • promote the journal throughout their network and other associated networks.
  • maintain regular communications with the community via periodical blog posts to the community website (which feeds automatically to our email newsletter, Facebook and Twitter).

The editor will be offered a complimentary electronic subscription to the Journal, free copies of the book which they edit, an electronic subscription to the book series as well as complimentary registrations to attend the conferences at the beginning and end of their term.

Qualifications

The Editor of the Journal must possess the following attributes:

  • They will have successfully obtained higher degree, and have academic teaching and scholarly research experience in an area related to the subject matter of the Journal.
  • They will have published in this or other comparable scholarly journals.

Applicants are asked to send:

  1. a cover letter outlining their interest and relevant experience, and the ways in which you would propose to enhance the profile of the journal
  2. a curriculum vitae
  3. a special theme outline: a title with paragraph explanation.

Please send applications and supporting documentation to journals@techandsoc.com

The deadline for applications is 26 September 2011.

Recently Published: Technology Journal

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The latest issue of The International Journal of Technology, Knowledge and Society includes:

Technology Journal, Volume 7, Number 1 now available

technology_frontThe first issue of Volume 7 of The International Journal of Technology, Knowledge and Society has now been published.

Volume 7, Number 1 contains:

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Uprising: The Internet’s Unintended Consequences

Uprising: The Internet’s Unintended Consequences by Marcus Breen is now available from the Technology and Society series.

The Internet has transformed the social relations that were once managed by the powers that be. As a rapidly maturing communications technology, the Internet has brought people together even while it has reinforced privatism. The desktop computer, the laptop, the cellular and mobile phone, the Global Positoning System, the pilotless drone aircraft, video games and Government documents courtesy of Wikileaks, all are connected on the network of networks. Together these converged elements of a global socio-technical system offer wonderful possibilities for human emancipation, even while those ideas collide with established ideas of civility and decency.

Utilizing a transdisciplinary approach, Uprising examines the way transgressive knowledge circulates in places and spaces where communication regulation has been removed. In doing so, the book offers a new approach to proletarianization. It is based on the theory that the deregulation of the digital infrastructure allows transgressive knowledge to be mobilized in ways that remake political economy. The current moment sees the Internet opening up questions about social organization, power and democracy. The unintended consequences that are attached to this analysis of the Internet are discussed in research about pornography and jihad. These case studies show how proletarianization can be used to understand the Internet, culture and society.

Marcus Breen is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Northeastern University, Boston.

Technology Journal to be included in Scopus

The International Journal of Technology, Knowledge and Society was evaluated by independent reviewers of the Content Selection & Advisory Board and has been accepted for inclusion in Scopus.

Scopus, launched in November 2004, is the largest abstract and citation database containing both peer-reviewed research literature and quality web sources. With over 18,000 titles from more than 5,000 publishers, Scopus offers researchers a quick, easy and comprehensive resource to support their research needs in the scientific, technical, medical and social sciences fields and, more recently, also in the arts and humanities. (from Scopus Overview)


Uprising: The Internet’s Unintended Consequences

Uprising: The Internet’s Unintended Consequences by Marcus Breen is now available from the Technology and Society imprint.

The Internet has transformed the social relations that were once managed by the powers that be. As a rapidly maturing communications technology, the Internet has brought people together even while it has reinforced privatism. The desktop computer, the laptop, the cellular and mobile phone, the Global Positoning System, the pilotless drone aircraft, video games and Government documents courtesy of Wikileaks, all are connected on the network of networks. Together these converged elements of a global socio-technical system offer wonderful possibilities for human emancipation, even while those ideas collide with established ideas of civility and decency.

Utilizing a transdisciplinary approach, Uprising examines the way transgressive knowledge circulates in places and spaces where communication regulation has been removed. In doing so, the book offers a new approach to proletarianization. It is based on the theory that the deregulation of the digital infrastructure allows transgressive knowledge to be mobilized in ways that remake political economy. The current moment sees the Internet opening up questions about social organization, power and democracy. The unintended consequences that are attached to this analysis of the Internet are discussed in research about pornography and jihad. These case studies show how proletarianization can be used to understand the Internet, culture and society.

Uprising: The Internet’s Unintended Consequences

Uprising: The Internet’s Unintended Consequences by Marcus Breen is now available from the Technology and Society imprint.

The Internet has transformed the social relations that were once managed by the powers that be. As a rapidly maturing communications technology, the Internet has brought people together even while it has reinforced privatism. The desktop computer, the laptop, the cellular and mobile phone, the Global Positoning System, the pilotless drone aircraft, video games and Government documents courtesy of Wikileaks, all are connected on the network of networks. Together these converged elements of a global socio-technical system offer wonderful possibilities for human emancipation, even while those ideas collide with established ideas of civility and decency.

Utilizing a transdisciplinary approach, Uprising examines the way transgressive knowledge circulates in places and spaces where communication regulation has been removed. In doing so, the book offers a new approach to proletarianization. It is based on the theory that the deregulation of the digital infrastructure allows transgressive knowledge to be mobilized in ways that remake political economy. The current moment sees the Internet opening up questions about social organization, power and democracy. The unintended consequences that are attached to this analysis of the Internet are discussed in research about pornography and jihad. These case studies show how proletarianization can be used to understand the Internet, culture and society.