Pedagogical skills and teaching role in virtual learning communities [Competencias pedagógicas y función docente en las comunidades virtuales de aprendizaje]

This paper is the result of a research whose objective was to investigate the pedagogical skills to be developed by teachers working with information technology and, in particular, the functions of a teacher in a Virtual Learning Community (VLC). This is a case study with a qualitative approach which observed the discursive strategies used by the teacher and the students along the joint activity in a virtual classroom from a regular course of the Universitat Oberta of Catalunya (UOC)

Pedagogical skills and teaching role in virtual learning communities [Competencias pedagógicas y función docente en las comunidades virtuales de aprendizaje]

This paper is the result of a research whose objective was to investigate the pedagogical skills to be developed by teachers working with information technology and, in particular, the functions of a teacher in a Virtual Learning Community (VLC). This is a case study with a qualitative approach which observed the discursive strategies used by the teacher and the students along the joint activity in a virtual classroom from a regular course of the Universitat Oberta of Catalunya (UOC)

Competencias pedagógicas y función docente en las comunidades virtuales de aprendizaje

El presente artículo es el resultado de una investigación que tuvo como punto de partida indagar sobre las competencias pedagógicas que deben desarrollar los profesores que trabajan con tecnologías de la información y, especialmente, nos referimos a las funciones de un profesor en una Comunidad Virtual de Aprendizaje (CVA). Se trata de un estudio de caso, con un enfoque cualitativo que analizó las estrategias discursivas utilizadas por el docente y estudiantes a lo largo de la actividad conjunta en un aula virtual, correspondiente a un curso regular de la Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC)

Academic domains as political battlegrounds:A global enquiry by 99 academics in the fields of education and technology

This article theorizes the functional relationship between the human components (i.e., scholars) and non-human components (i.e., structural configurations) of academic domains. It is organized around the following question: in what ways have scholars formed and been formed by the structural configurations of their academic domain? The article uses as a case study the academic domain of education and technology to examine this question. Its authorship approach is innovative, with a worldwide collection of academics (99 authors) collaborating to address the proposed question based on their reflections on daily social and academic practices. This collaboration followed a three-round process of contributions via email. Analysis of these scholars’ reflective accounts was carried out, and a theoretical proposition was established from this analysis. The proposition is of a mutual (yet not necessarily balanced) power (and therefore political) relationship between the human and non-human constituents of an academic realm, with the two shaping one another. One implication of this proposition is that these non-human elements exist as political ‘actors’, just like their human counterparts, having ‘agency’ – which they exercise over humans. This turns academic domains into political (functional or dysfunctional) ‘battlefields’ wherein both humans and non-humans engage in political activities and actions that form the identity of the academic domain. For more information about the authorship approach, please see Al Lily AEA (2015) A crowd-authoring project on the scholarship of educational technology. Information Development. doi: 10.1177/0266666915622044.</p

Academic Domains As Political Battlegrounds: A Global Enquiry By 99 Academics in The Fields of Education and Technology

This article theorizes the functional relationship between the human components (i.e., scholars) and non-human components (i.e., structural configurations) of academic domains. It is organized around the following question: in what ways have scholars formed and been formed by the structural configurations of their academic domain? The article uses as a case study the academic domain of education and technology to examine this question. Its authorship approach is innovative, with a worldwide collection of academics (99 authors) collaborating to address the proposed question based on their reflections on daily social and academic practices. This collaboration followed a three-round process of contributions via email. Analysis of these scholars' reflective accounts was carried out, and a theoretical proposition was established from this analysis. The proposition is of a mutual (yet not necessarily balanced) power (and therefore political) relationship between the human and non-human constituents of an academic realm, with the two shaping one another. One implication of this proposition is that these non-human elements exist as political actors', just like their human counterparts, having agency' - which they exercise over humans. This turns academic domains into political (functional or dysfunctional) battlefields' wherein both humans and non-humans engage in political activities and actions that form the identity of the academic domain. For more information about the authorship approach, please see Al Lily AEA (2015) A crowd-authoring project on the scholarship of educational technology. Information Development. doi: 10.1177/0266666915622044.Wo