Decomposing the Complexity of Value: Integration of Digital Transformation of Education with Circular Economy Transition
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2019
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Social Sciences
Abstract
In this article, we highlight the pressing need for integrating the windows of opportunities
that digital transformation of education opens up with circular economy education to accelerate
the achievements of sustainability outcomes. Circular economy transition, as a multi-scalar process,
relates to several contexts, e.g., product, firm, industry-level transformations ranging from designing
local socio-technical solutions to greening global value chains, with multi-level policy and business
implications for finance, production, distribution, consumption that are fundamentally consequential
to everyday life, work and learning. Drawing on theories of neo-capital, multi-level perspective
and structuration, and as methodology, using content analysis and qualitative meta-synthesis
of scientific publications in digital education for sustainability, we blended our findings into
multi-level, multi-domain structuration blueprints, which capture the complexity of value emanating
from the interactions among external structures, internal structures of agents, active agencies and
outcomes, for circular economy open online education and massive open online course instructional
designs. We conclude that learning and creating multiple values to increase social–ecological value,
complementarily to economic value, necessitate activating the complexity of value embedded in
digital education and circular economy transitions with customizable niches of learning preferences
and journeys of individuals and groups, within broader (and evolving) technological, organizational
and institutional structures.
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Sustainability, Circular economy, Education, Digital transformation of education, Open online education, Open educational resources, Massive open online courses, MOOCs, Complexity, Multiple value
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Türkeli, S., & Schophuizen, M. (2019). Decomposing the complexity of value: integration of digital transformation of education with circular economy transition. Social Sciences, 8(8), 243. doi:10.3390/socsci8080243