ISBN:
9783319019406
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (VIII, 281 p. 27 illus., 13 illus. in color, online resource)
Series Statement:
Research in Networked Learning
Series Statement:
SpringerLink
Series Statement:
Bücher
Parallel Title:
Druckausg.
Keywords:
Education
;
Education
Abstract:
The Design, Experience and Practice of Networked Learning Edited by: Vivien Hodgson, Maarten de Laat, David McConnell and Thomas Ryberg This book brings together a wealth of new research that opens up the meaning of connectivity as embodied and promised in the term ‘networked learning’. Chapters explore how contexts, groups and environments can be connected rather than just learners; how messy, unexpected and emergent connections can be made rather than structured and predefined ones; and how technology connects us to learning and each other, but also shapes our identity. These exciting new perspectives ask us to look again at what we are connecting and to revel in new and emergent possibilities arising from the interplay of social actors, contexts, technologies, and learning. Caroline Haythornthwaite, University of British Columbia Despite creating fundamentally new educational economics and greatly increasing access - teaching and learning in networks is a tricky business. These chapters illuminate the complex interactions amongst tools, pedagogy, educational institutions and personal net presences - helping us design and redesign our own networks. In the process, they take (or extract) network theory from the practice of real teaching and learning contexts, making this collection an important contribution to Networked Learning. Terry Anderson, Athabasca University What kinds of learning can social networking platforms really enable? Digging well beneath the hype, this book provides a timely, incisive analysis of why and how learning emerges (or fails to) in networked spaces. The editors do a fine job in guiding the reader through the rich array of theories and methods for tackling this question, and the diverse contexts in which networked learning is now being studied. This is a book for reflective practitioners as well as academics: the book's close attention to the political, pedagogical and organisational complexity of effective practice, and the lived experience of educators and learners, helps explain why networked learning has such disruptive potential - but equally, why it draws resistance from the establishment. Simon Buckingham Shum, The Open University The chapters in this volume explore new and innovative ways of thinking about the nature of networked learning and its pedagogical values and beliefs. They pose a challenge to us to reflect on what we thought networked learning was 15 year ago, where it is today and where it is likely to be ...
Description / Table of Contents:
-- Introduction - Researching Design, Experience and Practice of Networked Learning: an Overview -- Implications for Networked Learning of the ‘Practice’ Side of Social Practice Theories - a Tacit-knowledge Perspective -- Designing for Learning in Coupled Contexts -- Making the Right Connections: Implementing the Objects of Practice into a Network for Learning -- Teachers’ Use of Learning Technology in a South-Asian context -- Here be Dragons: Approaching Difficult Group Issues in Networked Learning -- Understanding Emerging Knowledge Spillovers in Small-group Learning Settings; a Networked Learning Perspective -- Changing the Rules of the Game - Using Blogs for Online Discussions in Higher Education -- Blended Problem-Based Learning: Designing Collaboration Opportunities for Unguided Group Research Through the Use of Web 2.0 tools -- Online Learning Communities for Teachers' Continuous Professional Development: An Action Research Study of eTwinning Learning Events -- Analysing Learning Ties to Stimulate Continuous Professional Development in the Workplace -- Learning Through Network Interaction: The Potential of Ego-Networks -- Mobile Learning and Immutable Mobiles: Using iPhones to Support Informal Learning in Craft Brewing.
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DOI:
10.1007/978-3-319-01940-6
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