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Advances in Research
on Networked Learning Edited by Peter Goodyear, Sheena
Banks, Vivien Hodgson and David McConnell
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Networked learning is
learning in which information and communications technology (ICT) is used to
promote connections: between one learner and other learners; between learners
and tutors; between a learning community and its learning resources.
Networked learning is an area which has great practical and theoretical
importance. It is a rapidly growing area of educational practice, particularly
in higher education and the corporate sector.
This volume brings
together some of the best research in the field, and uses it to signpost some
directions for future work. The papers in this collection represent a major
contribution to our collective sense of recent progress in research on
networked learning. In addition, they serve to highlight some of the largest
or most important gaps in our understanding of students' perspectives on
networked learning, patterns of interaction and online discourse, and the
role of contextual factors. The range of topics and methods addressed in
these papers attests to the vitality of this important field if work. More
significant yet is the complex understanding of the field that they combine
to create. In combination, they help explain some of the key relationships
between teachers' and learners' intentions and experiences, the affordances of text-based communications technologies and
processes of informed and intelligent educational change. This volume will prove
very valuable to researchers and teachers working in (higher) education and
corporate education. |
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