Education is often presented as the transmission of knowledge. Yet Hannah Arendt’s ideas of plurality and natality point us toward a richer promise.

Plurality reminds us that education always involves the meeting of diverse perspectives. Natality highlights that each new generation brings the possibility of new beginnings. Together they suggest that education is not only about continuity but also about creating conditions for renewal.

In a time when digital platforms and institutional pressures often move us toward uniformity, how can online learning preserve openness to plurality and to the unexpected promise of renewal?

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Education is not only the transmission of knowledge. It is always involved in the reproduction of society. Institutions decide what counts as knowledge and how it is valued. Technology extends this process, reinforcing institutional logics but also opening new possibilities for change.

In my latest blog post, I draw on the work of Cornelius Castoriadis to explore how digital learning technologies mediate between reproduction and transformation. The key question is whether these technologies serve mainly to reproduce existing institutional patterns, or whether they can also create genuine spaces for collective imagination.

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How can digital learning move beyond a market logic that frames learners as customers and platforms as products, towards practices that strengthen democracy and the common good?

In this post I explore how imaginaries shape education and how shifting from efficiency and scale to collaboration and shared responsibility might open new possibilities for digital pedagogy.

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What if we treated education as a public practice that builds a shared world, rather than reducing it to skills, metrics, or efficiency?

In my latest blog post I explore the idea of education as polis. This perspective sees learning as a collective act of world making, where classrooms, courses, and digital spaces can nurture the common good. Yet when platforms are structured around surveillance, competition, and control, the public dimension of education is put at risk.

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How can we reclaim digital learning spaces so they truly serve the public good? What practices or examples have you seen that embody this vision?

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What if the greatest barrier to change in education is not technology or funding, but the way we imagine what education is?

Institutions are never neutral. They carry histories, values, and priorities that shape what is possible in teaching and learning. When we accept these frameworks as fixed, even our innovations can end up reinforcing their limits.

In my latest blog post, I explore how educators can act as moral agents of reinstitution, helping to rewrite the structures and values that underpin education: e-learning-rules.com/blog/0045…

What changes could you make in your own context that challenge the default system rather than adapt to it?

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Are platform-based evaluations really neutral? Or do they conceal embedded assumptions about what counts as valuable, measurable, or meaningful in education?

In this post, I explore how digital platforms often flatten pedagogical nuance by presenting value-laden processes as objective. I argue for strong evaluation - evaluation that is grounded in explicit ethical, pedagogical, and social commitments.

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What role should universities play in the digital public sphere?

In my latest blog post, I explore how digital platforms are reshaping the visibility, legitimacy, and public voice of higher education. As teaching, research, and institutional presence increasingly depend on metrics and commercial infrastructures, we must ask how these changes affect the democratic and participatory ideals that underpin public education.

Can we reimagine the digital university in ways that support dialogue, inclusion, and critical engagement?

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What if the metrics we use in education are not just tools but moral arguments?

Dashboards, rankings, and engagement scores are often framed as neutral measures of learning. But these systems reflect a deeper imaginary shaped by the logic of markets - where efficiency, performance, and competition dominate.

In this post, I explore how educational technologies encode and reproduce a market-based moral order, and consider what it might mean to challenge that framing.

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EdTech, Critical Pedagogy, Digital Education, Philosophy of Education

What kind of person does EdTech imagine when it speaks of the "autonomous learner"?

This post explores how the dominant model of autonomy in digital education often reflects an individualised, self-managing ideal rooted in what Charles Taylor calls the "buffered self." It questions what is lost when we strip autonomy of its relational and ethical dimensions.

Can we imagine a richer form of autonomy - one that foregrounds co-creation, dialogue, and critical agency?

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What if the real limits of digital education are not just technical or institutional, but moral and cultural?

In my latest blog post, I explore the idea of the social imaginary as a way of understanding the background beliefs and assumptions that shape how we design, deliver, and interpret education. These moral frameworks often go unexamined, yet they determine what counts as legitimate learning and who the imagined learner is.

By surfacing these assumptions, we open the door to reimagining education in more inclusive, democratic, and imaginative ways.

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What kind of digital university are we helping to build when our platforms and systems quietly shape the terms of learning, participation, and institutional purpose?

In my latest blog post, I explore how the digital university often reflects managerial and instrumental priorities. I argue that we need to reclaim it as a democratic pedagogical institution - one that centres autonomy, co-creation, and meaningful engagement.

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Much of edtech is designed for immediacy. Speed, convenience, and disruption dominate the narrative. But learning is not instantaneous. It is slow, situated, and shaped by time and tradition.

In this post, I explore how digital learning environments might better respect the temporal and institutional dimensions of education. What might it mean to design technologies that support slowness, memory, and pedagogical depth?

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Too often, critique in digital education is dismissed as negativity or resistance. But what if critique could be something more constructive? What if it was a way of creating rather than simply opposing?

In my latest blog post, I argue that we need to move beyond solutionism and reclaim critique as a generative force. Drawing on Feenberg and Illich, I explore how political pedagogy and design grounded in educational values can open new spaces for imagining what learning could be.

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Educational institutions are not static structures. They are created and sustained by the social imaginaries that shape them. In my latest blog post, I explore how educational technologies are not neutral tools, but active participants in reproducing these institutional logics.

If we want to reimagine education, we also need to rethink the role technology plays in shaping what education is and could become.

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