learning analytics. online learning. transformative global education.
Macfadyen, L. P., Morales, E., & Roche, J. (2025).
Culture and communication in digital worlds. https://digitalcultures.ca
This dynamic website and open educational resource (OER) shares the outcomes of an ongoing academic project on culture, communication, and digital technologies. It includes a growing, searchable collection of research, an invitation to contribute new work, and our 2025 review of the field.
Macfadyen, L. P., Morales, E., & Roche, J. (2025).
Culture and communication in digital worlds. A scoping review of literature from the Third Age of internet studies.
The University of British Columbia. https://doi.org/10.14288/r5xm-qn87
What happens when people from different cultural backgrounds try to communicate using digital technologies? This review offers a roadmap and thematic analysis of literature we compiled from 2003-2023. In it, we consider what research is telling us about whether digital communication technologies represent new opportunities, new threats, or both, for human cultures.
Macfadyen, L. P. (2023).
Integrating Indigenous pedagogies into online learning.
A web-based learning design resource for educators.
This web-based resource guides users through the elements of the 5Rs model, and offers ideas, themes, resources and example activities that can be included in the design of online courses. Short videos offer insights and suggestions from Indigenous and non-Indigenous colleagues engaged in this work.
Macfadyen, L. P. (2022).
Institutional implementation of learning analytics: Current state, challenges, and guiding frameworks.
In C. Lang, G. Siemens, A. F. Wise, D. Gašević, & A. Merceron (Eds.), The Handbook of learning analytics (2 ed., pp. 173-186). Society for Learning Analytics Research. https://www.solaresearch.org/publications/hla-22/hla22-chapter17/
Cheong, P. H., Martin, J. & Macfadyen, L. P. (2012).
Introduction: Mediated Intercultural Communication Matters: Understanding New Media, Dialectics, and Social Change.
In P. Cheong, J. Martin and L. P. Macfadyen (Eds.), New Media and Intercultural Communication: Identity, Community and Politics (pp. 1-16). New York: Peter Lang.
Macfadyen, L. P.(2011).
Perils of Parsimony: The Problematic Paradigm of ‘National Culture’.
Information, Communication & Society, 14: 2, 280 — 293, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2010.486839
Macfadyen, L. P. (2009).
Being and learning in the online classroom: Linguistic practices and ritual text acts.
In M. N. Lamy & R. Goodfellow (Eds.), Learning Cultures in Online Education. UK: Continuum Press.
Macfadyen, L. P. (2008).
Diaspora and Denial? Holocaust Accounts of a Polish Community in Exile.
International Journal of the Humanities, 6 (5): 57-64.
Macfadyen, L. P. (2008).
“A Scottish Person Supporting England is an Impossibility”: Reflections on World Cup Mania and Scottish National Identity.
International Journal of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences, 3 (6): 185-191.
Macfadyen, L. P. (2008).
The perils of parsimony. “National culture” as red herring?
(In F. Sudweeks, H. Hrachovec and C. Ess (Eds.), Proceedings, Cultural Attitudes Towards Technology and Communication, Nimes, France, June 2008. Murdoch University: Perth, Australia.)
Macfadyen, L. P. (2008).
Constructing ethnicity and identity in the online classroom: Linguistic practices and ritual text acts.
(Networked Learning Conference 2008, Greece, May 2008).
Macfadyen, L. P. (2006).
Virtual Ethnicity: The new digitization of place, body, language, and memory.
Electronic Magazine of Multicultural Education, 8 (1).
Macfadyen, L. P. (2006).
The Prospects for Identity and Community in Cyberspace.
In C. Ghaoui (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Human-Computer Interaction (pp. 471-478). Hershey, PA: The Idea Group, Inc.
Macfadyen, L. P. (2005).
From the Spoken to the Written: The Changing Cultural Role of Folk and Fairy Tales.
Journal of Graduate Liberal Studies, X(1): 143-153.
Reeder, K., Macfadyen, L. P., Chase, M. and Roche, J. (2004).
Negotiating Culture in Cyberspace: Participation Patterns and Problematics.
Language Learning and Technology , 8(2): 88-105.
Macfadyen, L. P. (2004).
Global citizens in the age of the human genome.
(Association of Graduate Liberal Studies, Conference on the Global Citizen, Vancouver, British Columbia, July 2004.)
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