No Brideshead Revisited, no summer of love in the empty quadrangle: challenges to scholarship in the on-line age

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Mason, Andrew and Gehrmann, Richard. 2011. "No Brideshead Revisited, no summer of love in the empty quadrangle: challenges to scholarship in the on-line age." Offord, Baden and Garbutt, Robert (ed.) 2010 Cultural Studies Association of Australasia National Conference: A Scholarly Affair (CSAA 2010). Byron Bay, Australia 07 - 09 Dec 2010 Lismore, NSW.
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No Brideshead Revisited, no summer of love in the empty quadrangle: challenges to scholarship in the on-line age

Presentation TypePaper
AuthorsMason, Andrew (Author) and Gehrmann, Richard (Author)
EditorsOfford, Baden and Garbutt, Robert
Journal or Proceedings TitleProceedings of the 2010 Cultural Studies Association of Australasia National Conference: A Scholarly Affair (CSAA 2010)
ERA Conference ID50359
Number of Pages9
Year2011
Place of PublicationLismore, NSW
ISBN9780980498073
Web Address (URL) of Paperhttp://epubs.scu.edu.au/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1716&context=sass_pubs
Conference/Event2010 Cultural Studies Association of Australasia National Conference: A Scholarly Affair (CSAA 2010)
Cultural Studies Association of Australasia Annual Conference
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2010 Cultural Studies Association of Australasia National Conference: A Scholarly Affair (CSAA 2010)
Event Date
07 to end of 09 Dec 2010
Event Location
Byron Bay, Australia
Event Details
Cultural Studies Association of Australasia Annual Conference
CSAA Annual Conference
Abstract

As scholars we value the belief that we are part of a pedagogical project that challenges and critiques contemporary society, and that replicates itself with new generations of critics. We celebrate the arrival of the online era, with its multiple opportunities for facilitation of research, and the engagement and enrichment of the student experience. But has the new media gone too far in replacing the actual with the virtual, and what implications has the adoption of the online model of pedagogy on the on-campus student experience? The positive of online university is that it enriches and democratises, and allows disadvantaged and lower SES students to study in their own time and place, whether in Bangalow or Beijing. The authors consider the evolution of the online mode to
become the increasingly dominant discourse at the Wiki-University of the future, supplanting the physical campus in its central position in the student experience.
Increasingly compelled to respond to marketplace concerns, the corporate university presents a new learning experience that displaces students from the physical campus and allows them to embark on a fragmented part-time education where the learning experience can be compartmentalised, sidelined or marginalised to accommodate other pressing Gen Y concerns. The student narrative has changed and become diluted and depoliticised, and is in danger of reflecting instrumental values of credentialism with reduced scope for wider cultural learning. Representing different disciplinary perspectives, the authors of this paper chart the evolution of the on-campus student experience. They argue that while virtual education facilitates access to learning, if mismanaged the removal of the actual student from the spaces of the campus has the potential to create an empty credentialing virtual institution where actual students will be incidental not essential, with vastly altered learning experiences.

Keywordscampus life; cultural studies; online teaching; learning; pedagogy; web teaching; university experience
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020430399. Historical studies not elsewhere classified
470102. Communication technology and digital media studies
470299. Cultural studies not elsewhere classified
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Byline AffiliationsSchool of Humanities and Communication
Institution of OriginUniversity of Southern Queensland
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