Distance is temporal, affective, political. Distance education is often seen as a spatial challenge which can be overcome with communications technology. Philippa Sheail argues that digital education, considered temporally, surfaces a wider range of challenges and opportunities for understanding education in a global context.
This talk forms part of a series of three book launch events
held in September and October 2020 to mark the publication of The Manifesto for
Teaching Online:
Re-coding,
16th September.
We are the
campus, 7th October.
Text has
been troubled, 15th October.
The Manifesto
for Teaching Online can be purchased via MIT Press