Teacherbot: interventions in automated teaching
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https://doi.org/10.32870/Ap.v10n2.1342Keywords:
Posthumanism, automation, teacher, MOOC, digital educationAbstract
Promises of ‘teacher-light’ tuition and of enhanced ‘efficiency’ via the automation of teaching have been with us since the early days of digital education, sometimes embraced by academics and institutions, and sometimes resisted as a set of moves which are damaging to teacher professionalism and to the humanistic values of education itself. However, both the embrace and the resistance can be seen to be anchored in a humanistic orientation to the project of education which recent work in the theory of critical posthumanism draws into question. Working within the broad frame of critical posthumanism, this paper will revisit the notion of teacher automation in higher education, exploring how as teachers we might enact new, resistant ways of playing at the boundaries of the human and machine.
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Sian Bayne
Profesora de Educación Digital en la Universidad de Edimburgo. Reino Unido.
Notas al pie
Este artículo se publicó originalmente en inglés en la revista Teaching in Higher Education el 16 de abril de 2015. [Bayne, Sian. (2015). Teacherbot: interventions in automated teaching, Teaching in Higher Education, 20 (4), pp. 455-467, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/135625147.2015.1020783]. La traducción al español que presentamos en el actual número de Apertura fue realizada por el Dr. Rafael Morales Gamboa, profesor-investigador del Sistema de Universidad Virtual, de la Universidad de Guadalajara.
Programa de Investigación en Enseñanza y Aprendizaje del Reino Unido.
Este MOOC se ofreció en la plataforma de Coursera (https://www.coursera.org/course/edc). El equipo docente del MOOC estuvo conformado por Sian Bayne, Jen Ross, Jeremy Knox, Christine Sinclair y Hamish Macleod, de la Escuela de Educación de la Universidad de Edimburgo, Ingraterra.
Hadi Mehrpouya del grupo de Informática del Diseño de la Universidad de Edimburgo, Inglaterra.
EDCMOOC es el nombre usado por el robotmaestro, los nombres de los estudiantes están anonimizados.
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