ABSTRACT

This paper explores how academics navigate the Higher Education (HE) landscape being reshaped by the convergence of unbundling, marketisation and digitisation processes. Social Realism distinguishes three layers of social reality (in this case higher education): the empirical, the actual and the real. The empirical layer is presented by the academics and their teaching; the actual are the institutional processes of teaching, learning, assessment, mode of provision (online, blended); the real are the power and regulatory mechanisms that shape the first two and affect academics’ agency. Two dimensions of academics’ experiences and perceptions are presented. The structural dimension reflects academics’ perceptions of the emergent organisation of the education environment including the changing narratives around digitisation, marketisation and unbundling in the context of digital inequalities. The professional dimension aspects play out at the actor level with respect to work-related issues, particularly their own. This dimension is portrayed in academics’ concerns about ownership and control.

摘要

本文探讨了学术界如何通过分拆，市场化和数字化流程的融合重塑高等教育（HE）格局。社会现实主义区分了社会现实的三个层次（在本例中是高等教育）：实证，实证和实证。经验层由学者及其教学提供。实际是教学，学习，评估，提供方式（在线，混合）的制度过程；真正的是影响前两个因素并影响学者代理的力量和监管机制。介绍了学者的经验和看法的两个方面。结构维度反映了学者们对新兴的教育环境组织的看法，包括围绕数字化的叙事方式的变化，在数字不平等的背景下进行市场化和分拆。在涉及与工作有关的问题（尤其是与工作有关的问题）方面，专业层面的问题在演员级别发挥作用。这个维度体现在学者对所有权和控制权的关注中。