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Connected Minds, Emerging Cultures - Cybercultures in Online Learning (Paperback, New)
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Connected Minds, Emerging Cultures - Cybercultures in Online Learning (Paperback, New)
Series: Perspectives in Instructional Technology & Distance Education
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A volume in Perspectives in Instructional Technology and Distance
Education Series Editors: Charles Schlosser and Michael Simonson
Nova Southeastern University As the title indicates, this book
highlights the shifting and emergent features that represent life
online, specifically in and around the territory of e-learning.
Cybercultures in themselves are complex conglomerations of ideas,
philosophies, concepts, and theories, some of which are fiercely
contradictory. As a construct, ""cyberculture"" is a result of
sustained attempts by diverse groups of people to make sense of
multifarious activities, linguistic codes, and practices in
complicated and ever-changing settings. It is an impossibly
convoluted field. Any valid understanding of cyberculture can only
be gained from living within it, and as Bell suggests, it is ""made
up of people, machines and stories in everyday life."" Although
this book contains a mix of perspectives, as the chapters progress,
readers should detect some common threads. Technology-mediated
activities are featured throughout, each evoking its particular
cultural nuances and, as Derrick de Kerckhove (1997) has eloquently
argued, technology acts as the skin of culture. All the authors are
passionate about their subjects, every one engages critically with
his or her topics, and each is fully committed to the belief that
e-learning is a vitally important component in the future of
education. All of the authors believe that digital learning
environments will contribute massively to the success of the
information society we now inhabit. Each is intent on exploration
of the touchstone of ""any time, any place"" learning where
temporal and spatial contexts cease to become barriers to learning,
and where the boundaries are blurring between the formal and
informal. This book is divided into four sections. In Part I, which
has been titled ""Digital Subcultures,"" we begin an exploration of
""culture"" and attempt to locate the learner within a number of
digital subcultures that have arisen around new and emerging
technologies such as mobile and handheld devices, collaborative
online spaces, and podcasting. The chapters in this section
represent attempts by the authors to demonstrate that there are
many subdivisions present on the Web, and that online learners
cannot and should not be represented as one vast amorphous mass of
""Internet"" users.
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