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Autoroll: Scripting the Emergence of Classroom Facial Recognition Technology
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Selwyn, Neil; Campbell, Liz; Andrejevic, Mark – Learning, Media and Technology, 2023
This paper considers how facial recognition technology is coming to find a place in contemporary schooling. Drawing on the 'script analysis' approach from the field of Science and Technology Studies, the paper examines the development of a facial recognition-based classroom recognition system by an Australian start-up company -- 'AutoRoll'.…
Descriptors: Nonverbal Communication, Technology Uses in Education, Human Body, Foreign Countries
Digital Downsides: Exploring University Students' Negative Engagements with Digital Technology
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Selwyn, Neil – Teaching in Higher Education, 2016
Digital technologies are now an integral feature of university study. As such, academic research has tended to concentrate on the potential of digital technologies to support, extend and even "enhance" student learning. This paper, in contrast, explores the rather more messy realities of students' engagements with digital technology. In…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Undergraduate Students, Student Surveys
Digitally Distanced Learning: A Study of International Distance Learners' (Non)Use of Technology
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Selwyn, Neil – Distance Education, 2011
This article considers the uses and non-uses of digital technology by international distance learners. It draws upon data from in-depth interviews with 60 learners from around the world following distance education degree courses provided by a large UK federal university. The article focuses firstly on learners' descriptions of technology's role…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Distance Education, Student Attitudes, International Education