An evolving Manifesto for Teaching Online

In 2011 a group of academics published a short, provocative, and thoughtful Manifesto for Teaching Online. They updated it in 2016, and now this year MIT Press brought out their work in book form.

On June 10th the Future Trends Forum hosted two of the authors from the University of Edinburgh. Siân Bayne and Jen Ross, both part of UE’s Centre for Research in Digital Education, starred in a brilliant and transnational conversation. I was so impressed by the depth of thinking, by the resources shared, and by the questions we did and didn’t get to, that I wanted to expand on the session here.

To begin with, here’s the full recording of the hour:

Across the session several topics loomed large. For example, we explored how digital media changes the structure of academic authorship. Our guests recommended James Lamb’s post on Remixing the nature of authorship for more on this.

A provocative question asked us to consider how universal Universal Design for Learning actually is in terms of culture, situation, and more. On Twitter Ed Webb observed: