This handbook examines the pivotal role of virtual learning environments in shaping the educational experiences of today's digitally connected youth. It investigates how knowledge, skills, and aptitudes are cultivated through sustained interaction with technological interfaces, reshaping curriculum design, pedagogical strategies, and institutional priorities. With a critical focus on digital media, it explores the dynamic relationship between education, teaching practices, and commercial interests, offering essential insights into the evolving landscape of learning. Drawing on empirical research and conceptual analysis, the handbook introduces an ethical and techno-epistemological framework that reimagines teaching and learning in the digital era. Designed for university educators, academic researchers, and students, it serves as a vital resource for navigating e-learning platforms and informing policy development around digital media in educationmaking it indispensable for those shaping the future of educational practice.

Introduces a distinctive techno-epistemological framework grounded in empirical and conceptual research Examines the complex relationship between pedagogy, digital media, and commercial interests Offers policy-relevant insights for shaping future e-learning strategies

Autorentext

Peter Pericles Trifonas is Professor at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education/University of Toronto, Canada. His areas of interest include ethics, philosophy of education, cultural studies, literacy, and technology. Among his books are the following: Revolutionary Pedagogies: Cultural Politics, Instituting Education, and the Discourse of Theory, The Ethics of Writing: Derrida, Deconstruction, and Pedagogy, Ethics, Institutions and The Right to Philosophy (with Jacques Derrida), Roland Barthes and the Empire of Signs, Umberto Eco & Football, Pedagogies of Difference, Deconstructing the Machine (with Jacques Derrida), International Handbook of Semiotics, CounterTexts: Reading Culture.

Peirce Panagiotis Trifonas is a research analyst in Critical Information and Policy and a PhD student in Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, and Critical Theory at the Queen's University, Canada. His areas of interest are critical information policy, artificial intelligence, digital media, critical theory, and cultural studies. His research interrogates the relationship that we as people, users, and consumers have with technologies and the particular pseudo-religious medium that our understanding of technology evokes from within the techno-capital structures that dominate our current informational media landscapes and the economizing of its societal mode.

Inhalt

Digital Media and a New Epistemology of Teaching and Learning.- The Use of Digital Media in Teaching and Learning from Primary Education to Higher Education.- The Ethics of Education and the Digital Divide.- Digital Media and Critical Information Policy.- Digital Media and Subjective Agency.- 6.Digital Media and Public Pedagogy.