Title:
A posthumanist critique of flexible online learning and its "anytime anyplace" claims
Authors:
Shandell Houlden & George Veletsianos
Published:
British Journal of Educational Technology, 2019, volume 50, number 3, pp.1005-1018.
https://doi.org/10.1111/bjet.12779
From the abstract:
"Flexible approaches to online learning are gaining renewed interest in some part due to their capacity to address emergent opportunities and concerns facing higher education. Importantly, flexible approaches to online learning are purported to be democratizing and liberatory, broadening access to higher education and enabling learners to participate in educational endeavors at "anytime" from "anyplace." In this article, we critique such narratives by showing that flexibility assumes imagined autonomous learners that are self-reliant and individualistic."