Subscribers Only: Masterclass - Platforms & Power with Stuart Allen

In this session Stuart shares the initial findings from his doctoral research on how a new platform was developed, and how digital learning was experienced by online students based mostly in the Global South.

Based on in-depth interviews with students and staff, visual analysis and field notes, the findings show how particular ways of thinking, knowing and being get normalized, and suggest ways to make digital learning more equitable and inclusive in the future.

• Understand how spaces for digital learning can invite or proscribe particular approaches among students and staff

• Be able to challenge popular narratives around large-scale, ‘flexible’ approaches to higher education

• Be aware of how power relations emerge (or are confirmed) between Global North institutions and Global South students

• Feel better placed to support access, equity and inclusion in digital learning