These videos were created for our short online course, E-Learning and Digital Cultures. This course ran from 2013 to 2014 on Coursera. While the full content of the course is no longer available, we have made the videos from the course free and open so you can work through the resources in your own time.
This collection of high-quality media resources has been made available under Creative Commons licence for sharing, reuse and remixing.
Please note that the videos are representative of the views and research at the time of recording.
E-learning and Digital Cultures was aimed at teachers, learning technologists, and people with a general interest in education who wanted to deepen their understanding of what it means to teach and learn in the digital age. The course was about how digital cultures intersect with learning cultures online, and how our ideas about online education are shaped through “narratives”, or big stories, about the relationship between people and technology. The course explored some of the most engaging perspectives on digital culture in its popular and academic forms, and considered how our practices as teachers and learners are informed by the difference of the digital. This course looked at how learning and literacy is represented in popular digital-, (or cyber-) culture.
From the University of Edinburgh Digital Education team.