E-Learning and Digital Cultures

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The videos in this open resource are about:

  • how digital cultures intersect with learning cultures online
  • how our ideas about online education are shaped through “narratives”, or big stories, about the relationship between people and technology.

The course will also:

  • explore some of the most engaging perspectives on digital culture in its popular and academic forms,
  • consider how our practices as teachers and learners are informed by the difference of the digital.
  • look at how learning and literacy is represented in popular digital-, (or cyber-) culture. 

These videos are free resources originally created for the short course E-Learning and Digital Cultures on Coursera. This course is no longer running, but you can still work through the content in your own time using the videos in this open resource.

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This resource is hosted on the University's Media Hopper channel.

Summary
  • Type of course
    Open Resource: openly licensed instructional digital materials such as text, videos, audio files and other media.
  • Cost and certification
    Free. No certificate available.
  • Duration
    Self-paced
  • Weekly effort
    Self-paced
  • Difficulty level
    Introductory: No previous knowledge required
  • Learning platform
    Open Educational Resources
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