Book review: Digital Agency in Higher Education: Transforming teaching and learning, by Toril Aagaard and Andreas Lund

Abstract

Digital Agency in Higher Education: Transforming teaching and learning is an invitation for both academics and educational institutions to rethink digitalisation in the context of higher education, while other stakeholders might also benefit from reading the book to gain a more critical perspective on the digitalisation phenomenon in higher education. The authors, both senior academics in public higher education institutions inNorway, draw attention to our agentic role as humans in interaction with digital artefacts, and how wemay change in the process. They highlight that, in order to drive conscious digital transformation, human agency – and, concretely, transformative agency – is pivotal in the face of technological determination. Throughout the book, the authors introduce us to the background, implications and ideas behind digitalisation in higher education, emphasising how human agency needs to be enacted and fostered in that context.