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Digital technologies have brought with them a new information ecology. Information scarcity has been replaced by ubiquity, the ability to contest expertise has increased dramatically, the control of information flows has been redistributed, computers are increasingly capable of ‘intelligence’, and the way humans connect with those machines, that information and each other has been totally recast. But we are still educating people for the past—learning outcomes, activities and assessments continue to draw largely on pre-digital traditions. For example, despite the fact that information is far more accessible, it’s not uncommon for learning to still focus on content and its recall, rather than higher-order information and people skills. This chapter explores what is required to navigate the information ecology created by digital technologies and considers how those same digital tools can be used to connect people, praxis and information to construct the learning that our students need for today’s work and world.
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Young, S. (2023). Becoming Digital? University Learning and Teaching in the Digital Information Ecology. In: Kath, E., Lee, J.C.H., Warren, A. (eds) The Digital Global Condition. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-9980-2_9
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