About Digital Pedagogy

The global pandemic has exerted an unprecedented impact on education, teaching, and schooling, with the UN estimating that almost 1.6bn learners globally have been disrupted, in terms of their access to, and continuity of education. The pandemic has also drawn renewed attention to inherent problems with well-established, examination-based assessment models and approaches. If there are positive effects to be construed, the disruption of COVID-19 and the rapid shift to remote teaching has provided classroom teachers and students the opportunities afforded to learning in the online space. What can happen online is different to what can happen in a classroom. Emergent, new understandings have demonstrated the potential of technology-enhanced learning, suggesting alternative and innovative models of teaching and new models of schooling. 
 
This collection on Digital Pedagogies is informed both by looking back on the effects of the pandemic on school and education, while looking forward to new educational futures, with reimagined approaches to learning, teaching, and assessment for a post-pandemic world. 
 
This collection invites diverse studies that explore digital pedagogies which provide opportunities for shifting notions of schooling, be that classroom-based practices; blended, hyflex or hybrid and/or the use of virtual worlds. Importantly here, the critical exploration of new models of digital pedagogies and the relationship or impact on teacher or student learning and capabilities should be explored. We also welcome reviews of previous published works written for industry, policy makers and public dissemination. The purpose here is to enrich the lines of communication between researchers and practitioners by re-working and re-articulating known works. This could be a synthesis/accretion of research over time written in a style that is suitable for an audience outside of academia. It could explore ideas that inform new models of teaching and schooling. 

Keywords: digital pedagogies; e-learning; hybrid learning; hyflex teaching; technology enhanced learning; distance and remote learning; open education; immersive technology; AI and robotics in education
 
Any questions about this Collection? Please email editorial@routledgeopenresearch.org