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. & Hewling, A. (2011).
How the earth moved. ‘Difference’ and transformative learning in an online course on global citizenship.
In R. Land & S. Bayne (Eds.), Digital Differences: Perspectives on Online Education. Rotterdam: Sense Publishers.
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.
Swanson, D., Jones, S., Macfadyen, L. P. & O’Donovan, T. (2008).
How the Earth Moved: Transformative Learning in an Online International Course on Global Citizenship.
(Canadian Society for the Study of Education (CSSE) National Conference on Education, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, June 2008.)
Swanson, D., Macfadyen, L. P., O’Donovan, T., Fuller, J., O’Connor, B., Cox, A., Avasadanond, B., Land-Murphy, J., Chin, A. (2008).
Narratives of transformation: Critical reflections on pedagogy and practice in/through an international online course on global citizenship.
(Global Citizenship Education and Post Secondary Institutions: Policies, Practices and Possibilities. Edmonton, Alberta, October 2008.)
Berger, G., Abdi, A., Ahimbisibwe, D., Swanson, D., Macfadyen, L. P., Jones, S. & O’Donovan, T. (2008).
A FAILURE OF (IN)SIGHT?: Re-imagining global discourses and public policies on development, poverty, literacy, ICT, media and education from developing country contexts.
(Canadian Society for the Study of Education (CSSE) National Conference on Education, Vancouver, British Columbia, June 2008.)
Macfadyen, L. P. (2007).
Global Village, Global Classroom, Global Citizen?
(Canadian Association for Distance Education, International Conference: “Connecting in the Global Village/Connexions dans le village planétaire”, Winnipeg, Manitoba, June 2007.)
Macfadyen, L. P. & Hewling, A. (2007).
How the earth moved. ‘Difference’ and transformative learning in an online course on global citizenship.
(Ideas in Cyberspace Education 3: “Digital Difference”, Ross Priory, Loch Lomond, Scotland, March 21-23).
Macfadyen, L. P. & Hewling, A. (2006).
Teaching Towards Social and Ecological Justice Online: Introduction to Global Citizenship at UBC.
(3rd Annual Conference of the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning: “Making a Greater Difference: Connecting to Transformational Agendas”, Washington, DC, USA, November 9-12).
Macfadyen, L. P. (2005).
Review of Learning and Teaching Where Worldviews Meet, Eds. R. Sutherland, G. Claxton and A. Pollard.
International Journal of Lifelong Education, 24(2):179-181.
Macfadyen, L. P. (2005).
Teaching Global Citizenship Online
(UBC e-Strategy Town Hall, June 2005.)
Macfadyen, L. P. (2003).
International Education Online? A Report on Six Canadian Case Studies.
Research Report for the Canadian Bureau for International Education, Ottawa.
Macfadyen, L.P. (2003).
Expanding access to International Education: The Online Way.
CBIE Research Millennium Series No. 6, CBIE Ottawa, Canada.
Macfadyen, L. P. (2003).
International Education Online? Six Canadian Case Studies.
(Canadian Bureau for International Education: Annual Conference, Ottawa, Ontario.)
Macfadyen, L.P. (2003).
Intercultural and International Education via the Internet: Success Stories from Canada.
(Proceedings, UNESCO Conference on International and Intercultural Education, Jyväskylä, Finland, June 2003.)
Macfadyen, L. P. (2002).
Internet and Communication Technologies in International Education in Canada.
(Canadian Bureau for International Education: Annual Conference, Banff, Alberta.)
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