{"id":3110,"date":"2014-02-04T15:46:23","date_gmt":"2014-02-04T15:46:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsletter.alt.ac.uk\/?p=3110"},"modified":"2014-02-04T15:46:23","modified_gmt":"2014-02-04T15:46:23","slug":"scholarship-and-literacies-in-a-digital-age-special-issue-of-research-in-learning-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/altc.alt.ac.uk\/blog\/2014\/02\/scholarship-and-literacies-in-a-digital-age-special-issue-of-research-in-learning-technology\/","title":{"rendered":"Scholarship and Literacies in a Digital Age – Special Issue of Research in Learning Technology"},"content":{"rendered":"

Research in Learning Technology, the journal of the Association for Learning Technology, has published a Special Issue, \u201cScholarship and Literacies in a Digital Age\u201d.<\/p>\n

In the editorial, Norm Friesen, Lesley Gourlay, and Martin Oliver comment that, \u201cthese papers provide a range of perspectives on this fast-moving area of engagement with technology, reminding us of the urgent need for sustained critical and theorised work in this field.\u201d<\/p>\n

You can find the following articles at http:\/\/go.alt.ac.uk\/1imEG0b<\/a><\/p>\n

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  1. Textual practices in the new media digital landscape: messing with digital literacies by Lesley Gourlay, Mary Hamilton, Mary Rosalind Lea<\/li>\n
  2. The five resources of critical digital literacy: a framework for curriculum integration by Juliet Hinrichsen and Antony Coombs<\/li>\n
  3. Capturing the sociomateriality of digital literacy events by Ibar Bhatt and Roberto de Roock<\/li>\n
  4. Scholarly, digital, open: an impossible triangle? by Robin Goodfellow<\/li>\n
  5. Multimodal profusion in the literacies of the Massive Open Online Course by Jeremy Knox and Si\u00e2n Bayne<\/li>\n
  6. The habitus of digital scholars by Cristina Costa<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    In 2013, ALT hosted a series of webinars funded by the JISC IOE Digital Literacy project based on some of these papers.<\/p>\n

    Papers numbered 1, 2, 4, 5 above are available as recorded webinars via: http:\/\/repository.alt.ac.uk\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n

    The journal has also recently issued a call for research papers for altc2014. Accepted papers will be published in a Special Issue of RLT, and presented at the 21st annual conference of the Association for Learning Technology, 1-3 September 2014, to be held at the University of Warwick, UK.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Research in Learning Technology, the journal of the Association for Learning Technology, has published a Special Issue, \u201cScholarship and Literacies in a Digital Age\u201d. In the editorial, Norm Friesen, Lesley Gourlay, and Martin Oliver comment that, \u201cthese papers provide a range of perspectives on this fast-moving area of engagement with technology, reminding us of the […]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alt-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3202,"url":"https:\/\/altc.alt.ac.uk\/blog\/2014\/03\/a-review-of-literacy-in-the-digital-university\/","url_meta":{"origin":3110,"position":0},"title":"A Review of “Literacy in the Digital University”","author":"ALT","date":"24 March 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Literacy in the Digital University: Critical Perspectives on Learning, Scholarship, and Technology Edited by Robin Goodfellow and Mary R. 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