Student Engagement in the Digital University ─ Sociomaterial Assemblages

Student Experiences in the Digital University challenges mainstream conceptions and assumptions about students’ engagement with digital resources in higher education. The book‘s thesis is that students’ experiences in the digital university cannot be reduced either to transferable skills or typological categories, but must be understood as embodied, socially situated and taking place in complex networks involving human and non-human actors. A series of chapters incorporating empirical data from a JISC-funded project on digital literacies concludes with far-reaching implications for research, policy and practice.

Lesley Gourlay is Head of the Department of Culture, Communication and Media and Reader in Education and Technology at the Institute of Education, University College London, UK. She is Co-Convener of the Society for Research into Higher Education’s UK-wide Digital University Network, and Executive Editor for the journal Teaching in Higher Education.

Martin Oliver is Professor of Education and Technology and the Head of the Centre for Doctoral Education at the Institute of Education, University College London, UK. He has edited the journals Research in Learning Technology and Learning, Media and Technology, and is Past President of the Association for Learning Technology.