e-Learning Ecologies Principles for New Learning and Assessment [Paperback]

e-Learning Ecologies explores transformations in the patterns of pedagogy that accompany e-learningthe use of computing devices that mediate or supplement the relationships between learners and teachersto present and assess learnable content, to provide spaces where students do their work, and to mediate peer-to-peer interactions. Written by the members of the new learning research group, this textbook suggests that e-learning ecologies may play a key part in shifting the systems of modern education, even as technology itself is pedagogically neutral. The chapters in this book aim to create an analytical framework with which to differentiate those aspects of educational technology that reproduce old pedagogical relations from those that are genuinely innovative and generative of new kinds of learning. Featuring case studies from elementary schools, colleges, and universities on the practicalities of new learning environments, e-Learning Ecologies elucidates the role of new technologies of knowledge representation and communication in bringing about change to educational institutions.

Chapter 1: Conceptualizing e-Learning

Chapter 2: Ubiquitous Learning  Spatio-Temporal Dimensions of e-Learning

Chapter 3: Active Knowledge Making  Epistemic Dimensions of e-Learning

Chapter 4: Multimodal Meaning  Discursive Dimensions of e-Learning

Chapter 5: Recursive Feedback  Evaluative Dimensions of e-Learning

Chapter 6: Collaborative Intelligence  Social Dimensions of e-Learning

Chapter 7: Metacognition  Cognitive Dimensions of e-Learning

Chapter 8: Differentiated Learning  Diversity Dimensions of e-Learning

Bill Cope is Professor in the Department of Educational Policy Studies at the University of Illinois, USA. He is Principal Investigator in a series of major projects funded by the Institute of Educatiolß