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2019 |
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p15448444 |
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abstract |
This paper outlines some of the material assemblages that are formed in international
distance education (DE) in Africa. It offers a first exploratory study of materialities
in DE and how they potentially distribute and aggregate to form a network to provide
education. Through the use of interviews, students lived experiences are explored
to unpack the multiplicity of networks needed to overcome the de‐aggregated and distributed
institution. The multiplicity of networks that form in DE brings challenges that question
how spaces become connected and disconnected and how different materialities shape
DE. The materialities in DE produce forces and effects, such as translocal and transmobilites
that are more than just the human actor, but extrude materials, networks, and connectives
that transform continuously. The interconnectivities of the university and home or
institution and students are brought together through enabling technology, but infrastructure
does not always have the ability for the facilitation of aggregation. |
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abstract |
The expansion of Distance Education universities and the growth of technology enabled
learning is reshaping the boundaries of universities. Distance education provides
affordable education to thousands of students both domestically and internationally,
but the quality and nature of these connections and the materialities that embed them
are often taken for granted. Yet, these connections require work – as they are unstable.
Through a case study on students at the University of South Africa this paper conceptualises
the distance education university as an assemblage which distributes materials to
students globally but must also aggregate to provide services, both online and offline.
The students experience of distance education is not bound to a physical university
campus but this does not make study seamless or placeless. Rather studying draws in
places unequally based on the access students have to the material infrastructures
required for study. In exploring distance education this paper points to the sociomaterialities
which are going to be ascendant in the context of increasing technological shifts
in higher education. |
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peerReviewed |
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http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/1088374 |
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http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/1088375 |
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http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/1088376 |
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http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/1088377 |
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http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/1088378 |
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http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/1088379 |
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http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/1089695 |
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http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/890172 |
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http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/890181 |
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http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/890213 |
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http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/890214 |
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http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/890223 |
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http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/890224 |
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http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/890225 |
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http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/890226 |
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http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/890227 |
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AcademicArticle |
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Article |
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label |
Gunter, Ashley; Raghuram, Parvati ; Breines, Markus and Prinsloo, Paul (2019).
Distance Education as sociomaterial assemblage: place, distribution and aggregation.
Population, Space and Place (In Press). |
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label |
Gunter, Ashley; Raghuram, Parvati ; Breines, Markus and Prinsloo, Paul (2019). Distance
Education as socio-material assemblage: Place, distribution and aggregation. Population,
Space and Place (Early Access). |
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Title |
Distance Education as socio-material assemblage: Place, distribution and aggregation |
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Distance Education as sociomaterial assemblage: place, distribution and aggregation |
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oro |