What educational participatory archiving taught us about online altruism and collective knowledge

We have transformed and theorised our model of digital collegiality as participatory archiving to account for evidence of nostalgia during the pandemic. In doing so, we explore and promote the idea of the digital archive as a broader innovation in digital education. Specifically, we reimagine collaborative online professional learning as the co-production of a digital archive and reconceptualise reflective practice focused upon the inscription and coauthoring of social memory. We signpost new possibilities for research into digital education based upon an engagement with the digital archive of online learning as a social and historical account of shared practice. Finally, we show how participatory archiving in digital education has since been applied to the transformation of an online module in the MA in Education at University of Derby, which explores the COVID-19 pandemic, the digital collegiality model, and the view of the module itself as an enactment of participatory digital archiving.