Rethinking Learning for a Digital Age: How learners are shaping their own experiences

by Sharpe; Rhona

• ISBN13: 9780415875431
• ISBN10: 0415875439
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2010-06-16
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Rethinking Learning for a Digital Age addresses the complex and diverse experiences of learners in a world embedded with digital technologies. The text combines first-hand accounts from learners with extensive research and analysis, including a developmental model for effective e-learning, and a wide range of strategies that digitally-connected learners are using to fit learning into their lives. A companion to Rethinking Pedagogy for a Digital Age (2007), this book focuses on how learners' experiences of learning are changing and raises important challenges to the educational status quo.Rethinking Learning for a Digital Age :Moves beyond stereotypes of the net generation to explore the diversity of e-learning experiences today Analyses learners' experiences holistically, across the many technologies and learning opportunities they encounter Reveals digital-age learners as creative actors and networkers in their own right, who make strategic choices about their use of digital applications and learning approachesToday's learners are active participants in their learning experiences and are shaping their own educational environments. Professors, learning practitioners, researchers, and policy-makers will find Rethinking Learning for a Digital Age invaluable for understanding the learning experience, and shaping their own responses.

Author Biography

Rhona Sharpe is Principal Lecturer in Educational Development, Oxford Centre for Staff and Learning Development, Oxford Brookes University. Helen Beetham is an e-learning consultant. Sara de Freitas is Director of Research, Serious Games Institute, University of Coventry Technology Park.

Table of Contents

List of Tables	p. vii
List of Figures	p. viii
List of Contributors	p. ix
Foreword	p. xvii
Acknowledgements	p. xxi
An Introduction to Rethinking Learning for a Digital Age	p. 1
New Contexts for Learning	p. 13
The Influence of Pervasive and Integrative Tools on Learners' Experiences and Expectations of Study	p. 15
Social Networking: Key Messages From the Research	p. 31
Managing Study and Life With Technology	p. 43
Constructs That Impact the Net Generation's Satisfaction With Online Learning	p. 56
Provisionality, Play and Pluralism in Liminal Spaces	p. 72
Frameworks for Understanding Learners' Experiences	p. 83
Understanding Students' Uses of Technology for Learning: Towards Creative Appropriation	p. 85
Expanding Conceptions of Study, Context and Educational Design	p. 100
How Learners Change: Critical Moments, Changing Minds	p. 114
Listening With a Different Ear: Understanding Disabled Students' Relationships With Technologies	p. 128
Strengthening and Weakening Boundaries: Students Negotiating Technology Mediated Learning	p. 142
New Learning Practices	p. 153
The Changing Practices of Knowledge and Learning	p. 155
Analysing Digital Literacy in Action: A Case Study of a Problem-oriented Learning Process	p. 170
Collaborative Knowledge Building	p. 184
'But It's Not Just Developing Like a Learner, It's Developing as a Person': Reflections on E-portfolio-based Learning	p. 199
Skills and Strategies for E-learning in a Participatory Culture	p. 212
Index	p. 225
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