Digital Culture

 

What is Digital Culture?

Digital culture is a blanket concept that describes the idea that technology and the Internet significantly shape the way we interact, behave, think, and communicate as human beings in a societal setting.

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Looking beyond the conventional claim that digital technology has been the primary determinant of the open education movement, Peter and Deimann have made the case for a rich tradition of open educational practices spanning from the beginnings of monastic scholarship, through the coffee house culture of eighteenth-century Europe. Peters also provided a historical analysis of «openness» through a discussion of Open Educational Resources, a movement that has prompted considerable research on cultures of sharing and reuse of material or ways of bypassing institutional systems of accreditation. Additionally, many have challenged the pedagogical rationales of the institution ally-affiliated MOOCs on the grounds that they do not offer anything disruptive to established educational practices. Following from such concerns about whether the MOOC actually offers anything innovative or transformative, what follows is motivated by an interest in what might be genuinely new about this emerging educational format.

This article suggests that «massiveness» constitutes not only something unprecedented in education but also something of significant value to continued work in an educational domain that is becoming increasingly global in its capacity and reach. The dominant considerations of massive participation have thus been concerned with productivity and «efficiency measures that hope to aggregate fewer higher-level educational encounters and standardize them for regularized future delivery»

 Observations propose an irreducible diversity of participation, rather than a generalized categorization of learners, and call for future considerations of MOOCs (Massive Open Online Course) to go beyond individualism and self-interest. 

Beyond the common notion that digital technology has been the fundamental determinant of the open education movement, Peter and Deimann have argued for a long history of open educational practices dating back to monastic study and the coffee house culture of eighteenth-century Europe. Such histories and backgrounds, it is alleged, have been completely disregarded, both by proponents of Coursera, edX, and Udacity and by critics of the modern MOOC phenomena.