Collaboration or competition? The value of sector-wide collaboration in educational technology research
Collaboration or competition? This question is at the centre of this editorial, which explores the importance of sector-wide approaches to research into educational technology. This has become particularly relevant in recent years in response to a range of significant challenges or disruptions the tertiary education sector has had to face, for example, responding to the COVID-19 pandemic or the emergence of new generative AI tools. To address these challenges, we have taken a collaborative approach to writing this editorial, with contributing authors from across the world responding to four key questions. The responses to those questions were then arranged into four key themes: collaboration in response to disruption, individual benefits from collaboration, communal benefits from collaboration, and ensuring collaborative wisdom. The editorial concludes with a section that situates the preceding discussion in a broader context and challenges us to consider our wider impact on the world as a sector and, in particular, as related to educational technology. We conclude that collaboration is a must and has the potential to empower us to push the boundaries of what is possible.
Authors
- Alyssa Wise
- Tracy X. P. Zou (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3283-3424)
- Eamon Costello (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2775-6006)
- Aras Bozkurt (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4520-642X)
- Kate Ames (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1819-8137)
- Allison Littlejohn (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1784-3365)
- Henk Huijser (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9699-4940)
- Linda Corrin (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1593-3271)
- Christopher Charles Deneen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2860-2073)
- Michael Cowling (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1361-1201)
- Laura Czerniewicz (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1239-7493)
- Mary Wright (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0006-2351-7987)
Institutions
- Anadolu University (TR)
- Deakin University (AU)
- University of Cape Town (ZA)
- Queensland University of Technology (AU)
- University of South Australia (AU)
- John Brown University (US)
- Chinese University of Hong Kong (HK)
- Vanderbilt University (US)
- Media Design School (NZ)
- Costello Medical Consulting (United Kingdom) (GB)
- University College London (GB)
- Central Queensland University (AU)
- Australian Catholic University (AU)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Australasian Journal of Educational Technology
- Published
- 2024-10-22
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.14742/ajet.10077
- Citations
- 3
- Primary Topic
- Online and Blended Learning
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 6.29