Technology-influenced learning and learner agency: Collaborative reflections on entangled global perspectives
Much of the ongoing discourse on technology and education tends to prioritize either of the two over the other. Yet in the postdigital world of teaching and learning, education and technology are heavily intertwined and can no longer be isolated and discussed meaningfully in separation from each other. Following Fawns’ (2022) framework of entangled pedagogy, […]
Understanding China in the Asian Century: A Future of Higher Education Internationalization?
Asia’s growing influence in global higher education, visible in China’s emergence as a ey destination for international students, comes with a call to re-examine international student mobility (ISM) through evolving geopolitical and cultural lenses. This collective writing study discusses the motivations and adaptive experiences of international Ph.D. students in Chinese universities, and reveals that while […]
Media Literacy Education in China: A Review of recent Literature
Two decades into the 21st century, an increasingly powerful and complicated media environment has gained an ever-growing influence on our lives. China has one of the largest, most vibrant, active, and sophisticated media landscapes globally. In such a vast and high-pace media environment, media literacy has quickly become a topic of interest for both academic […]
Creating Shared Value in China: The Case of Austrian Businesses
The objective of this study is to investigate the state of Creating Shared Value in China, where a number of societal pressures and issues, appear to offer businesses plentiful opportunities to apply the Creating Shared Value model. The focus here lies on foreign businesses in China, which are commonly referred to as a key driving […]
What changes are university students seeking? Bringing employers to classrooms to facilitate post-graduation opportunities
University graduates not in employment and training in Azerbaijan lack relevant skills and knowledge that would make them eligible for post-graduation opportunities. The SABAH project aimed to address this problem. This article explores the perceived benefits of this advanced education program for students’ eligibility for post-graduation opportunities, such as employment. 25 undergraduate students majoring in […]
Open Science in China: Openness, Economy, Freedom & Innovation
Taking credit for digitalization and platformization, China has initiated its open science infrastructure implementation and made an effort to focus on open access (OA) journals and data sharing over the past two decades. With the continuous development need, issues and concerns have caught in attention, including data accessibility, research transparency, general population awareness and communication […]
Higher Education and Creative Economy in East Asia: Co(labor)ation and Knowledge Socialism in the Creative University
This paper is a complete student-led, student-edited collective writing project (CWP) conducted virtually in Spring 2022 throughout the course Knowledge Socialism taught by professor Michael Peters for the Faculty of Education, Beijing Normal university. The CWP involves 4 international, 5 domestic Ph.D. students, and 2 senior Western scholars as reviewers, revealing their thoughts, arguments, understanding, […]
Challenging EdTech: Towards a More Inclusive, Accessible and Purposeful Version of EdTech
The integration of technology in education has received much attention throughout recent years. Many argue that technology can be packaged as a product to improve learning outcomes, make education more cost-efficient, and enhance education retention and access, among other potential outcomes. Nevertheless, research has shown that technology use in education so far only achieves its […]
Emotion AI in Education: A Literature Review
Emotion (or affective) artificial intelligence (AI) is a hot topic within the greater field of AI, in both, academic as well as practitioner circles. One of the industries with great potential for AI implementation is education. While emotion AI is commonly referred to as a field of growing interest, research in the specific context of […]
Contesting EdTech Success
With the rise of technology integration in education, much of its success is measured based on improving students’ learning outcomes and experiences in Education Technology (EdTech)-supported classrooms and entirely online-based education settings, where access (for example, to a reliable network connection and laptop computers or smartphones) is implicitly assumed. Similarly, a large majority of the conversation about EdTech is dominated by […]
