Digital degrowth: Toward radically sustainable education technology

N Selwyn - Learning, Media and Technology, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
This paper outlines how ideas of 'degrowth'might be used to reimagine sustainable forms of
education technology. In essence, degrowth calls for a proactive renewal of technology use …

Ed-Tech Within Limits: Anticipating educational technology in times of environmental crisis

N Selwyn - E-Learning and Digital Media, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Despite climate heating and rising ecological instability, environmental issues feature rarely
in discussions of educational technology. Most commentators presume the continued …

Digital education utopia

S Bayne - Learning, Media and Technology, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
This paper uses Levitas's (2013)'utopia as method'as a way to approach the histories of
digital education and its utopian possibilities. The themes of emergence, openness and …

Hopeful futures for refugees in higher education: cultivation, activation, and technology

M Gallagher, S Nanyunja, M Akello, A Mulondo… - International Journal of …, 2024 - Springer
This paper discusses hopeful futures for higher education and the use of technology in
realising those futures through the lens of refugee education in Uganda. Through an …

A return to Teacherbot: rethinking the development of educational technology at the University of Edinburgh

MR Breines, M Gallagher - Teaching in Higher Education, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
In the market discourses of technological disruption, higher education institutions have
routinely been positioned in deficit models and of anachronistic approaches to teaching at …

Surfacing knowledge mobilities in higher education: Reconfiguring the teacher function through automation

M Gallagher, M Breines - Learning, Media and Technology, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Automation is becoming increasingly common in higher education. This is generally posed
around accepting large number of students while seeking to keep faculty numbers static and …

Digitalisation of education in the era of climate collapse and planetary breakdown

N Selwyn - World Yearbook of Education 2024, 2024 - taylorfrancis.com
This chapter argues for the complete reassessment of the digitalisation of education in light
of impending climate breakdown and eco-compromised futures. Put bluntly, this chapter …

Rebusque and minimal computing in rural Colombia: LibreEscuela, an OER co-creation project

N Ruiz, J Tejera, O Sabalza, S Soache… - Learning, Media and …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
The use of technologies is seen as a solution to provide high-quality education to the
disadvantaged population in the Global South, based on the narrative of 'disruption and …

[HTML][HTML] Rural education imaginaries in digital education policy: An analysis of CONPES 3988 in Colombia

N Ruiz, M Gallagher - International Journal of Educational Development, 2025 - Elsevier
This paper explores the digital imaginaries presented in the educational governance and
policy landscape of Colombia through the lens of rurality. It interrogates one policy …

[HTML][HTML] Radiating out rather than scaling up: Horizontalism and digital educational governance in Ghana

M Gallagher, P Evans, J Sarpong-Duah - International Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Digital education is often understood as a force for the standardization of education. In this
paper, we argue for the development of policy and strategy instruments founded on situated …