Vol. 15 No. 25 (2022): Dilemmas of digitisation

Editor: Jens Jørgen Hansen, jjh@sdu.dk, University of Southern Denmark
Editor: Lillian Buus, libu@via.dk, VIA University College
Guest editor: Stig Børsen Hansen, stbh@sdu.dk, University of Southern Denmark

In this issue of LOM, we focus on the dilemmas, barriers and paradoxes that unfold when, to a still greater extent, teaching is digitised. Examples of dilemmas are when educational institutions select digital platforms which, in themselves, contain pedagogical possibilities and limitations. Or when educators develop teaching materials and encounter copyright challenges. When an educator team has developed a course and poses the question: who owns this material? When students in an assignment conduct interviews and questionnaire surveys and are faces with challenges in relation to GDPR issues such as consent, data storage and data processing or in other words, when the digital resource dictates the educational design.

The dilemmas of digitisation thus contain a broad spectrum of ethical and legal challenges as well as pedagogical, strategic and quality assurance dilemmas that are found at the institutional level as well as at the levels of teaching and learning.

This issue calls for case studies that investigate and elaborate on one or more dilemmas, barriers or paradoxes. Contributions should consider and discuss possible solutions to the dilemmas identified.