Keynote presentation with Keith Smyth at EdTechIE 2019 conference, 31 May 2019

1. Re-imaging digital
transformation through critical
pedagogy
Sheila MacNeill
@sheilmcn
Keith Smyth
@smythkrs
Bill Johnston
EdTech 2019
#edtechIE19

2. Session Overview
• Overview
• Critical frames of reference
• Our critical reimagining
• Feedback

3. Critical frames of
reference
Discursive, reflective,
dialogic process,
grounded in critical
pedagogy
Challenging
neo-liberalism
open

5. Transformation as
a troublesome concept?

6. People and pedagogy not
technology and
managerialism

8. Academic
development and
open education at the
heart of organisational
development
Revised conceptual matrix,, MacNeill, Johntson, Smyth,
(2019 )

9. Critically
engaged
academic
development
as a key part of
digital
transformation
Academic development as critical
practice – central to digital
transformation
Utilise porosity between academic
developers, educational
developers, learning technologists
Challenge structures current
CPD/professional
recognition/metrics are modelling

10. Re-centering “the digital”

11. The curriculum as an
open and negotiated
space

12. Porosity (2)
Open scholarship (2)
Co-location(2)
Co-production(2)
Participation Public pedagogy
Praxis
(1)
(3)
Designed physical and
digital learning spaces
Self-selected digital
learning spaces
Formal and informal
learning communities
Public third spaces
Digital third spaces
(3)
Negotiation and agency
Difference and diversity
Curation and creation
Vertical and horizontal
learning engagement
Sustainable pedagogies
Reflexive dialogue
The Digitally Distributed Curriculum
(1) Values (2) Enabling dimensions (3) Instantiation and enactment of DDC
(3) Digital artefacts
Collaborative public projects
Student digital scholarship Digital knowledge domains
(3) Open textbooks and resources Open online engagement
Open campus engagement Open in the community
Fluid curriculum

13. Civic responsibility - v –
neoliberal consumerism

14. What do you think?
https://padlet.com/sheilamacneill
/edtech19

15. "let our numbers be
unlimited"
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16. Thank you