DiP - Digital Pedagogy and Learning in Higher Education
Time: February 5, 2025, 14.30-15.30 (CET)
Location: Online via Zoom (link will be sent out in registration E-mail)
Language: English
Target group: Open for everyone interested
Deadline for registration: February 3, 2025
Fee: Free
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Abstract for DiP webinar:
This session will offer a novel conceptual framework for teaching and learning that gives more purposefulness and intentionality to commonly used terms such as interaction and active learning. Drawing on Roland Barthes’s concept of the writerly text (1974), we will discuss new avenues for thinking about how students engage with course content by reconceptualizing learning as an act of meaning making. Barthes argued that texts tend to be either readerly or writerly, that readerly texts put the reader in a passive position and offer a limited number of possible interpretations, while writerly texts situate the reader as a co-producer of the text’s meaning, making the act of reading an act of (re)writing. This session will present the concept of writerly teaching and learning, exploring how it can be achieved in the teaching and learning process, as well as how it can be employed as a design value for evaluating course and lesson design.
Short bio:
Robert Gray, Associate Professor of University Pedagogy, University of Bergen
Robert Gray is Associate Professor of University Pedagogy in the Department of Education at the University of Bergen in Bergen, Norway, where he also leads the TeLEd (Teaching and Learning in Higher Education) research group. He holds a Ph.D. in Instructional Technology from the University of Alabama (USA) has over twenty-five years experience in the professional development of university teaching staff, particularly in regard to digital learning. His research interests include teaching and learning in higher education, interaction, how technology impacts assessment practices, and peer feedback. In addition, he has published three books of poetry and directed an award-winning documentary film on race relations in the American South.
Resources for the webinar:
Barthes, Roland. 1974. S/Z: An Essay. Translated by Richard Miller. New York: Hill and Wang.
Gray, Robert. 2019. “Meaningful Interaction: Toward a New Theoretical Approach to Online Instruction.” Technology, Pedagogy and Education 28, no. 4: 473-484.
Gray, Robert. 2017. “Teaching and Learning as Textual Acts: Roland Barthes, Assessment, and the Value of the Writerly. In Theory Lessons: Putting Theory into Practice in the Contemporary Classroom, edited by Becky McLaughlin, 95-115. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.