The e-Learning Reader [Paperback]

Technological advancements have revolutionised the field of learning in the past twenty years and are continuing to push the boundaries of institutions towards new forms of knowledge construction, social interaction and meaning making. This book examines the key debates that have shaped that technological journey, from ancient to modern times, and draws together meaningful articles to provide an expert guide for e-learning practitioners, research staff, students and industrial trainees. The e-Learning Reader provides a scholarly collection of key texts which examine the concept and practice of e-learning in education and training. The book brings together a series of formative historical and recent articles which frame the debate on e-learning, drawing together new comments from leading experts in the field of e-learning.

Sara de Freitasis Associate Deputy Vice Chancellor for Teaching and Learning at Curtin University, Australia.

Jill Jamesonis Director of Research and Enterprise and Reader in Education Research at the School of Education, University of Greenwich, UK.

Foreword Etienne Wenger \ Acknowledgements \ Introduction \ An Overview of e-Learning (2004) T. Mayes and S. de Freitas \ Part I: e-Learning from Perspectives of Experiential Learning and Play \ Democracy and Education (1916) J. Dewey \ Experience and Education (1938) J. Dewey \ Play, Dreams and Imitation in Childhood (1962) J. Piaget \ Play, Thought, and Language (1983) J. Bruner \ Happiness and Creativity: Going with the Flow (1997) M. Csikszentmihalyi \ Situated T?khne Beyond the Performative: Metaformative Bodies and the Politics of Technology in Post-Modernism (2006) J. del Val \ Learning to Play, Playing to Learn: A Case Study of a ludic Learning Space (2010) A. Y. Kolb and D. A Kolb \ Worrying' Knowledge and Vicarious Learning (2012) T. Mayes \ Part II: e-Learning from Perspectives of Developmental Learning \ Emile - Book 1 (1762, trans. 1979) J. Rousseau \ Summerhill“¡