THE DESIGN, EXPERIENCE AND PRACTICE OF NETWORKED LEARNING by Vivien Hodgson (Editor), David McConnell (Editor), Maarten de Laat (Editor) ( 9783319019390 )

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Title:

THE DESIGN, EXPERIENCE AND PRACTICE OF NETWORKED LEARNING

By:

Vivien Hodgson (Editor), David McConnell (Editor), Maarten de Laat (Editor)

Format:

Hardback

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ISBN 10:

3319019392

ISBN 13:

9783319019390

Publisher:

SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING AG

Pub. date:

18 January, 2014

Edition:

2014 ed.

Series:

Research in Networked Learning

Pages:

281

Description:

The chapters in this book are based on research papers delivered at the 8th biennial Networked Learning Conference, NLC 2012. It includes numerous case studies furnishing practical tips for the implementation of networked learning.

Synopsis:

The Design, Experience and Practice of Networked LearningEdited by: Vivien Hodgson, Maarten de Laat, David McConnell and Thomas RybergThis 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 ColumbiaDespite 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 UniversityWhat 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 UniversityThe networked learning conference, a biannual institution since 1998, celebrates its 14th year in this volume. Here a range of studies, reflecting networked learning experiments across Europe and other global contexts , show important shifts away from a conservative tradition of xe-learning(1) research and unpeel dilemmas of promoting learning as an elusive practice in virtual environments. The authors point towards important futures in online learning research, where notions of knowledge, connectivity and xcommunity(1) become increasingly elastic, and engagements slide across material and virtual domains in new practices whose emergence is increasingly difficult to apprehend.

Illustrations:

13 Illustrations, color; 14 Illustrations, black and white; VIII, 281 p. 27

Publication:

Switzerland

Imprint:

Springer International Publishing AG

Returns:

Returnable

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