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 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 e-learning 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
community become increasingly elastic, and engagements slide across
material and virtual domains in new practices whose emergence is
increasingly difficult to apprehend."
""
"Tara Fenwick University of Stirling."
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 headed.
Each chapter brings a particular perspective to the themes of
design, experience and practice of networked learning, the chosen
focus of the book. The chapters in the book embrace a wide field of
educational areas including those of higher education, informal
learning, work-based learning, continuing professional development,
academic staff development, and management learning.
The Design, Experience and Practice of Networked Learning will
prove indispensable reading for researchers, teachers, consultants,
and instructional designers in higher and continuing education; for
those involved in staff and educational development, and for those
studying post graduate qualifications in learning and teaching.
This, the second volume in the Springer Book Series on
Researching Networked Learning, is based on a selection of papers
presented at the 2012 Networked Learning Conference held in
Maastricht, The Netherlands."
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