Digital Learning, Ethics and Pedagogies
A special issue of Societies (ISSN 2075-4698).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 1 December 2025 | Viewed by 51
Special Issue Editors
Interests: digital inequality; sociological theory; research methods; work; elites
Interests: social ethics; ethics in technology; sociology and religion
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
As the digital revolution accelerates, people are teaching and learning in radically different ways. From the rise in audio culture with podcasts to the rapid scaling of AI, educators must now more than ever grapple with emergent ethical issues related to teaching and learning in the digital age. This Special Issue invites contributions from scholars of all fields, policy makers, educators, and practitioners to discuss these dynamic shifts in both formal and informal learning. This volume calls for contributors to probe increasingly important issues including but not limited to innovative pedagogies, interdisciplinary approaches to learning, emergent research methods, theoretical frameworks, and/or conceptual advances. Given the dynamic pace of change, the parameters for contributors are set as broadly as possible, including emergent phenomena, historical work, international, comparative, and/or global angle of vision. Article submissions may be empirical, theoretical, or methodological—using any method or approach to formal or informal learning from the social sciences, humanities, professional schools, and beyond.
Dr. Jeremy Schulz
Dr. Katia Moles
Prof. Dr. Laura Robinson
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- learning
- pedagogy
- digital
- online
- education
- ethics
- AI
- user-generated content
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