Online Is the New Face2Face: Critical and Global Participation in Literacy Research Through Web Seminars

• In Event: 49.051 - Advanced Technologies for Learning SIG Paper Session

Abstract

The explosion of social media and online delivery platforms offers a gateway to digital technologies that have increased teaching and learning opportunities across educational spaces. Participants are turning to online sources for learning and knowledge generation. This paper investigates how online learning has become the new Face2Face in light of access, globalization, and on demand learning through the critical literacy webinar project, Online Conversations in Literacy Research (oCLR): “To what extent can or does oCLR as an emerging critical literacy project influence and impact a global literacy community?” “What affordances/constraints occur in a critical literacy project that aims to serve a global audience? and, “What literacy issues emerge in and across oCLR seminars, and how are they taken up?”

Authors

• Peggy M. Albers, Georgia State University

• Dennis Murphy Odo, Georgia State University

• Christi Pace, Georgia State University

• Tuba Angay-Crowder, Georgia State University

• Ji Hye Shin, Georgia State University

• Aram Cho, Georgia State University

• Sarah Turnbull, Georgia State University

• Myoung Eun Pang, Georgia State University

• Jin Kyeong Jung, University of Pennsylvania

• Mandi Sena, Georgia State University