What’s up with transmedia and education? A literature review

Abstract

In the last few years, several works have emerged focusing on the cultural change that has to do with the simultaneous and sequential coexistence between different media. This is what is being called transmedia, and it is related to the new concepts of media convergence and participatory culture. All this new mediatic and cultural movement, of course, begins to have an echo in the educational world. However, what do we mean by this concept from an educational perspective? Through a systematic literature review, we analyse this transmedia concept in three meanings: transmedia as ability or literacy necessary to actively evolve in this movement of participatory culture; transmedia as the product resulting from that sequential jump between different analogical and digital media, conveyed by a narrative; and, lastly, transmedia as a didactic strategy that explores that narrative that is developed in different means to achieve concrete didactic objectives.

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“…En la sociedad red (Castells, 2009) necesitamos establecer estructuras red, locales y globales, de colaboración abierta entre sociedad, investigación, educación e innovación en ecosistemas que, con una perspectiva de cambio para la mejora social, promuevan la creación de experiencias de enseñanza y aprendizaje situadas en nuevos contextos, superando los modelos tradicionales basados en la instrucción entendida como mera transmisión de contenidos (Álvarez-Arregui, 2019). Avanzar en esta exploración permitirá dejar atrás definitivamente el debate propio del anterior siglo, el XX, acerca de los opuestos entre aprendizaje presencial-offline y virtual-online, incorporando experiencias y trayectorias de aprendizaje como marco para la nueva actuación educativa (Esteban-Guitart et al, 2018;Gee y Esteban-Guitart, 2019 Los nuevos modelos pedagógicos tienen que estar preparados para hacer frente a escenarios de elevada complejidad e incertidumbre (Iglesias et al, 2020) dando soporte, mediante evidencias, para desarrollar experiencias expandidas, flexibles y distribuidas en torno a una narrativa transmedia a través de la cual profesores y estudiantes naturalicen la cultura digital en lo que a oportunidades y procesos de aprendizaje se refiere (González-Martínez et al, 2019). Concretamente en el contexto de la educación superior, la personalización educativa, que no pretende ser un mero proceso de individualización (customización), persigue incorporar la libertad, control y responsabilidad (agencia) de los aprendices, haciéndoles partícipes de la coordinación de los procesos de aprendizaje para convertirlos en proyectos o misiones personales que facilitarían aprendizajes con sentido y valor personal (Coll, 2018;Coll, Esteban-Guitart e Iglesias, 2020;Jubany, 2012).…”

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