Exploring What is Lost in the Online Undergraduate Experience - A Philosophical Inquiry into the Meaning of Remote Learning

This book examines the significance and meaning of undergraduate online learning using a hermeneutic phenomenological study, asking what is lost when there is no face-to-face contact and exploring the essence of technology itself.

List of contents

Foreword by Holger Zaborowski 1. Introduction: The Phenomenon, Methodology and Background to Participants 2. The Withdrawn or Lost Face of Online Undergraduate Learning 3. The Irksome Face of Online Undergraduate Learning 4. Experiencing the Synchronous but Absent Face 5. Writing to No Face and Everyone: The Present Absence 6. Solitude and Inauthenticity 7. Vulnerability and Community: Body and Conversation 8. Reciprocal Voyeurism: Hiding from Others Together 9. Narrowed Purpose: Text, Money and Efficiency 10. The Game of Facelessness 11. Response-Ability 12. Facing the Void: Body and Soul 13. Facing Some Parts of Learning Online Post-COVID-19 14. The Post-COVID-19 Lacuna in Higher Education 15. Interlude: Engaging Poetically with Insights and Implications 16. Works and Days: A Response to the Void in Higher Education after COVID-19 17. Face-to-Face Learning is a Focal Practice 18. Death in the Desert: Finding the Soul of Undergraduate Learning 19. Teaching Undergraduates after COVID-19: Harder to Learn to Let Learn than to Learn 20. What is the Meaning of what is Lost in Non-Face-to-Face Teaching? 21. Questioning is the Piety of Thought: The Wonder of Education

About the author

Steve Stakland is Associate Professor and Philosophy Department Chair at Northern Virginia Community College, USA.

Summary

This book examines the significance and meaning of undergraduate online learning using a hermeneutic phenomenological study, asking what is lost when there is no face-to-face contact and exploring the essence of technology itself.

Product details

• Authors: Steve Stakland
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.08.2024
• EAN: 9781032392561
• ISBN: 978-1-032-39256-1
• No. of pages: 184
• Weight: 453 g
• Series: Routledge Research in Digital Education and Educational Technology
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Phenomenology, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Existentialism, Higher & further education, tertiary education, Phenomenology & Existentialism, Higher education, tertiary education, Phenomenology and Existentialism, EDUCATION / Schools / Levels / Higher