Networked Learning An Educational Paradigm for the Age of Digital Networks [Hardcover]

This book?posits the idea that networked learning is the one new paradigm in learning theory that has resulted from the introduction of digital and networked technologies.?It sets out, in a single volume, a critical review of the main ideas and then articulates the case for adopting a networked learning perspective in a variety of educational settings. This book?fills a gap in the literature on networked learning.?Although there are several edited volumes in the field?there is no other monograph makes the?academic case and provides the academic?context for networked learning. This volume?accomplishes three main goals. First, it assists researchers and practitioners in acquainting themselves with the field. Second,?it?provides?resources for reference and guidance to?those not well acquainted?with the?field.?Finally and most powerfully,?it?also allows for?the consolidation of a field that?is truly multidisciplinary in a way that maintains coherence and consistency.This book presents the idea that networked learning is the one new paradigm in learning theory that has resulted from digital and networked technologies. It argues for the adoption a networked learning perspective in a variety of educational settings.Technology, learning and social life.- The age of digital networks.- Theories of learning in a digital age.- A network of learning theories.- An ecology of actors and actants in digital networks.- The institutions: the university.- The infrastructures.- The academic.- The Learner.- The future of networked learning.

Networked learning describes how people develop andmaintain connections with each other, with technologies, and with information,and how such connections affect their learning. & The difference between thisand other books on the topic is that, to my knowledge, this is the only one tosee the applications of networked learning in academic settings and itsbenefits for them. In my view, the author has succeeded in achieving the tacitgoals of the l³«