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9780415268097

Distributed Learning: Social and Cultural Approaches to Practice

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  • ISBN13:

    9780415268097

  • ISBN10:

    0415268095

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Nonspecific Binding
  • Copyright: 2001-12-14
  • Publisher: RoutledgeFalmer

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Summary

During the last decade, new technologies have resulted in new forms for delivering learning, together with new terms for describing them - such as "distributed learning". These new forms include e-mail, video conferencing, Web CT, and computer conferencing. With contributions by some of the leading international authors in the area,Distributed Learningprovides a theoretical framework for practitioners who are new to the field of distributed learning.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors
vii
Editors' introduction 1(15)
Mary R. Lea
Kathy Nicoll
Information, Knowledge and learning: Some issues facing epistemology and education in a digital age
16(22)
Colin Lankshear
Michael Peters
Michele Knobel
Informed opportunism: teaching for learning in uncertain contexts of distributed education
38(18)
Wendy Morgan
Anne L. Russell
Michael Ryan
Legitimate peripheral participation in communities of practice
56(8)
Jean Lave
Etienne Wenger
Looking beyond the interface: activity theory and distributed learning
64(19)
David R. Russell
Workplaces, communities and pedagogy: an activity theory view
83(15)
Stephen Billett
Distribution and interconnectedness: the globalisation of education
98(13)
Richard Edwards
The English language and `global' teaching
111(20)
Barbara Mayor
Joan Swann
From independent learning to collaborative learning: new communities of practice in open, distance and distributed learning
131(21)
Mary Thorpe
Learning as cultural practice
152(18)
Charles Crook
The university campus as a `resourceful constraint': process and practice in the construction of the virtual university
170(12)
James Cornford
Neil Pollock
Identity, community and distributed learning
182(14)
Gill Kirkup
Flexible literacies: distributed learning and changing educational spaces
196(14)
Richard Edwards
Kathy Nicoll
Alison Lee
Index 210

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