Cartography of Relationships: Mapping Online Learning Communities

• In Event: Cross-Cultural Conversation for the Pursuit of Multiple Truths in Education

Abstract

This paper explores the complex meaning of relationships and learning within online learning communities. Guided by Briadotti’s (2019) posthuman theory, we contemplate how subjectivities and relationality “complicate” the online learning communities. We also consider the work of Lao Tzu (500 BCE) and interweave post-qualitative inquiry, duoethnography, and autobiographical inquiry to further unpack these complexities. In rethinking conventional notions of effectiveness and good relationships between the instructor and students, we interrogate the entangled relationships occurring in the online setting before and during the pandemic with the use of images. Focusing on the metaphors of map/(p)ing and knitting, we interpret the vignettes of lived experience to interrogate the current wave of creating a new normal in teaching-learning post-pandemic.

Authors

• Jenna Nelson, Concordia University - Chicago
  Presenting Author

• Seungho Moon, Loyola University Chicago
  Presenting Author