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Collaboration or competition? The value of sector-wide collaboration in educational technology research

Year: 2024
Type: editorial
Abstract: Collaboration or competition? This question is at the centre of this editorial, which explores the importance of sector-wide approaches to research into educational technology. This has become particularly relevant in recent years in response to a range of significant challenges or disruptions the tertiary education sector has had to face, for example, responding to the COVID-19 pandemic or the emergence of new generative AI tools. To address these challenges, we have taken a collaborative approach to writing this editorial, with contributing authors from across the world responding to four key questions. The responses to those questions were then arranged into four key themes: collaboration in response to disruption, individual benefits from collaboration, communal benefits from collaboration, and ensuring collaborative wisdom. The editorial concludes with a section that situates the preceding discussion in a broader context and challenges us to consider our wider impact on the world as a sector and, in particular, as related to educational technology. We conclude that collaboration is a must and has the potential to empower us to push the boundaries of what is possible.
DOI: 10.14742/ajet.10077
Authors: Henk Huijser, Kate Ames, Aras Bozkurt, Linda Corrin, Eamon Costello, Michael Cowling, Laura Czerniewicz, Chris Deneen, Feifei Han, Allison Littlejohn, Alyssa Wise, Mary Wright, Tracy Zou
Institutions: Queensland University of Technology, Torrens University Australia, Anadolu University, Deakin University, Central Queensland University, University of Cape Town, University of South Australia, Australian Catholic University, University College London, Vanderbilt University, Brown University, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Language: English
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4403629211
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Cited by: 6
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