Research in Learning Technology (Dec 2008)

Uncanny spaces for higher education: teaching and learning in virtual worlds

  • Siân Bayne

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3402/rlt.v16i3.10898
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 16, no. 3

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This paper brings together the theory of the uncanny as it emerges in cultural theory, with an understanding of the uncanniness and troublesomeness seen to be inherent in certain understandings of teaching and learning in higher education. Drawing on research into students' experiences of learning in virtual worlds, it explores the sense in which teaching in such spaces materialises and extends the positive aspects of uncertainty, strangeness, disquietude and troublesomeness in online higher education.

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