Choose perspectives (modernism, symbolic interpretivism, critical theory or postmodernism)and examine how these perspectives provide us with different insights or understandings of the impact of technology in modern universities.
The work of modern universities is becoming increasingly dependent on technology.
Choose two of the four perspectives (modernism, symbolic interpretivism, critical theory or postmodernism) and examine how these perspectives provide us with different insights or understandings of the impact of technology in modern universities.
This essay is designed to develop your knowledge of the theoretical perspectives, to build your understanding that each perspective is underpinned by different assumptions that lead to different ways of seeing or understanding organisations. Given their ontological and epistemological underpinnings, each perspective has different ways of seeing how organisations and technology intersect.
This essay is not an exercise in describing various technologies used in universities.
There is a lot of literature available about how technology impacts on students' learning. Do not get side-tracked into a descriptive discussion of technology-driven changes in learning patterns or student outcomes. Remember, the question is about the work of universities. Any examples must illustrate how a theoretical perspective would view the use of technology in universities.
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