Combinary Competence Reflections on Multidisicplinary Approaches to Digital Media and Learning

  • Authors:

  • Gunnar Liestøl

  • Affiliations:

  • Dept. of Media and Communication, University of Oslo, Norway, gunnar.liestol@media.uio.no

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2005 conference on Towards Sustainable and Scalable Educational Innovations Informed by the Learning Sciences: Sharing Good Practices of Research, Experimentation and Innovation
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

Recent developments in the convergence and divergence of digital media and learning have made it obvious that multidisciplinary research and development is both a challenge and a problem in need of serious reflection and understanding. Interdisciplinarity is in one way or the other, involved in most research efforts aimed at exploiting the potential and promise of digital media in the context of learning. Based on practical experience with how theories and methodologies of both computer science and the humanities have been conjoined in developing digital solutions for learning, this paper discuss the benefits and problems of such a combined approach. Drawing from perspectives in epistemology (Bateson and Wittgenstein) the notion of a combinatory competence is suggested as a prospect for handling the compatibilities and incompatibilities of multidisciplinary research and development in the complex, but exciting field of digital media in education.