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 OEe-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
OEcommunity(1) 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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