Sian Bayne, James Lamb, and I have a chapter in the new book Place-based Spaces for Networked Learning edited by Lucila Carvalho, Peter Goodyear and Maarten de Laat. The chapter is on the sound spaces of online, distance learners drawing on data from the University of Edinburgh’s research project “New Geographies of Learning: distance education and being ‘at’ the University of Edinburgh.”
Borrowing from the chapter itself:
“The growing influence of the digital within higher education prompts us to rethink how and where learning takes place. Conventional understandings of the university, with its lecture theatres, seminar rooms and social areas, are problematised by the varied and fluid learning spaces of online students who may never cross the threshold of the physical campus. Much has been written about the digital environments where online learning takes place, however up to this point relatively little attention has been paid to the material spaces that online distance students occupy while learning.
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