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Abstract / Description of output
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 casualising an already fragmented academic labour market. Much of this automation is positioned around perceived gains (efficiency, time, cost) and learning personalisation (personal assistants as a means of providing support). Yet there has been little work in exploring how human and student agency, code, algorithms, and further digital instruments might be reconfigured through automation to service the teacher function. In this paper, we draw on a combination of speculative events and qualitative work conducted with students, faculty, and staff across the three colleges at the University of ZZZ to explore automation as a component of the teacher function assemblage. Through participatory student and teacher-led research and development, narratives of teaching practice and the role of automation in performing aspects of the teacher function emerged. Consequently, this paper offer insights into debates about sociomaterial dimensions of higher education and demonstrates what mobilities are being engendered as a result of the reconfigured teacher function.
Original language | English |
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Journal | Learning, Media and Technology |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 26 Sept 2020 |
Keywords / Materials (for Non-textual outputs)
- digital education
- automation
- educational technology
- mobilities
- higher education
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Exploring the Teacher Function: Continuing Interventions in Automated Teaching
Gallagher, M. & Breines, M.
1/07/19 → 1/05/20
Project: Research
Activities
- 1 Oral presentation
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Rethinking mobilities through the digital: signals, data and devices
Markus Breines (Speaker) & Michael Gallagher (Speaker)
Jun 2024Activity: Academic talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
Profiles
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Michael Gallagher
- Moray House School of Education and Sport - Senior Lecturer
- Institute for Education, Community & Society
- Centre for Research in Digital Education
Person: Academic: Research Active