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Technology, Equity, and Inclusion in the Virtual Education Space

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Advances in technology have been occurring at an exponential rate, and the increased sophistication of these advances can be seen in the proliferation of new educational tools. As educational technology continues to immerse itself in the higher education space, it behooves administrators and practitioners to consider the ways in which this technology, either by design or by its alignment with polarizing capitalist framework models, may exclude students traditionally marginalized in education. When these systems are cultivated in environments with adversarial relationships between instructors and students, then requisite solutions are necessarily crafted in ways that will be fundamentally exclusive. We argue in this essay that inclusion in the virtual education space only occurs when key stakeholders are mindful and intentionally attentive to the structures that undergird surveillance capitalism and educational “solutionism” assumptions of technological innovation, and the factors that govern how and why people engage with technology writ large. This requires examining the written assumptions companies identify in their policies and applying a critical lens to the problems technology is purported to solve. A focus on recentering humanity as the driving philosophy of inclusive pedagogy can also improve how the academic community engages, uses, and operationalizes technological advancement in the virtual education space.

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Taylor, C., Dewsbury, B., Brame, C. (2022). Technology, Equity, and Inclusion in the Virtual Education Space. In: Witchel, H.J., Lee, M.W. (eds) Technologies in Biomedical and Life Sciences Education. Methods in Physiology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-95633-2_2

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