2024 Conference Highlights
About:
A collaboration between the University of Toronto Scarborough Library and Center for Teaching and Learning; Brock University; Toronto Metropolitan University Library and Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching; and the University of Waterloo, the 2024 Digital Pedagogy Institute (DPI) will be hosted online this year.
The 10th iteration of the virtual conference will take place August 13th, 14th, and 15th. The conference will feature keynote addresses and presentations in support of undergraduate and graduate teaching and learning.
DPI 2024 Short Schedule updated Dec 2024
DPI Schedule with Abstracts updated Dec 2024
Themes
- digital pedagogy collaborations between faculty, educational developers, librarians, and/or graduate/undergraduate students, as well as organizations outside the academy;
- digital pedagogy best practices in STEAM, the Humanities, and the Social Sciences;
- the state of digital pedagogy education in higher education;
- digital pedagogy case studies, including course and assignment innovations;
- innovative new uses for traditional digital pedagogy tools.
Streams
DPI 2024 will include six streams:
- Critical Ideologies and Digital Pedagogy: How do we question and challenge dominant beliefs and practices in the field of Digital Pedagogy? What underlying approaches and questions should we engage with more deeply? How can our pedagogical practices help support new educational priorities and social change?
- Digital (de)colonialism: How have digital pedagogy techniques and tools helped instructors and students address anti-racist and decolonization practices in their curriculum and research? What are the challenges and opportunities? Do you have any best practices to share?
- Inclusivity, Accessibility, and Digital Pedagogy: Issues related to inclusivity and accessibility are at the forefront of Digital Pedagogy. What barriers have you encountered in your research and practice? How have you resolved them? What barriers remain? This is an opportunity to reflect on and share frameworks and best practices that have helped to reduce pedagogical barriers and integrate digital pedagogy approaches.
- Sustainability, Renewability, and Environmental Costs in the digital sphere: Digital pedagogy is not immune to environmental critique. There are environmental impacts associated with generating the power and equipment needed to support digital initiatives. How should we reconcile the benefits of digital pedagogy with its environmental costs? Can digital pedagogy proponents be good environmental stewards?
- Digital Pedagogy and the Post-Truth society: It is becoming increasingly difficult to navigate what is real and what is true. How can Digital Pedagogy help instructors and students to navigate issues related to digital literacy, data ethics, artificial intelligence, social media influences, etc.
- Digital Pedagogy and Emerging Technologies: This new stream delves into the dynamic intersection of digital pedagogy and emerging technologies in higher education. It focuses on how digital tools and innovative technologies like artificial intelligence, big data, and immersive technologies (virtual reality, augmented reality, etc.) are reshaping teaching and learning experiences. The discussions will cover strategies for integrating these technologies into academic curricula, impacts and implications, and challenges of ensuring equitable access and ethical use.
2024 Keynote Speakers
Maha Bali is Professor of Practice at the Center for Learning and Teaching at the American University in Cairo. She has a PhD in Education from the University of Sheffield, UK. She is co-founder of virtuallyconnecting.org (a grassroots movement that challenges academic gatekeeping at conferences) and co-facilitator of Equity Unbound (an equity-focused, open, connected intercultural learning curriculum, which has also branched into academic community activities Continuity with Care, Socially Just Academia, a collaboration with OneHE: Community-building Resources and MYFest, an innovative 3-month professional learning journey. She writes and speaks frequently about social justice, critical pedagogy, and open and online education. She blogs regularly at http://blog.mahabali.me and tweets @bali_maha.
Emily Drabinski
Emily Drabinski is Associate Professor at the Queens (N.Y.) College Graduate School of Library and Information Studies. She edits Gender & Sexuality in Information Studies, a book series from Library Juice Press/Litwin Books. Drabinski serves as 2023-24 President of the American Library Association.
Rua Mae Williams
Dr. Williams is an Assistant Professor of User Experience Design at Purdue University in Indiana, USA. They are a Just Tech Fellow with the Social Science Research Council, where they are investigating disabled people’s bodily autonomy and social agency through adaptive and assistive technologies. Dr. Rua M. Williams is the Principal Investigator for the CoLiberation Lab, which studies interactions between technology design, technology research practices, and Disability Justice. Dr. Williams deploys Feminist and Anti-Racist approaches to Technoscience, Critical disability Studies, and Science and Technology Studies in the design and evaluation of sociotechnical systems. Through their scholarship they illustrate injustice in technology while simultaneously uplifting marginalized users’ own practices of resistance.
DPI 2024 Short Schedule updated Dec 2024
DPI Schedule with Abstracts updated Dec 2024
