Online Dexterity—Applications for Enhancing Teachers’ and Students’ Competence and Confidence in Online Spaces in Tertiary Art and Design Education

Digital tools and artificial intelligence are disrupting and transforming pedagogies in higher art and design institutions. In this session, we introduce research that advances the notion of ‘online dexterity,’ framing the technological proficiency of university educators and students not as fixed abilities but as immediate, flexible responses to the evolving landscape of online learning. Utilising phenomenology and grounded theory research methods to examine the experiences of 55 university teachers and students, we chart the strategic adjustments that constitute their online dexterity. In this session, we encourage participants to discuss potentially integrating these practices into the higher education sphere of art and design.

Presenters:

• Joyce Hwee Ling Koh, Professor of Learning Design and Technologies (University of Otago)

Session type: Paper

Time listed is Singapore time.