Distributed Learning

Social and Cultural Approaches to Practice

Buch | Hardcover

224 Seiten

2001
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-415-26808-0 (ISBN)

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During the last decade, new technologies have resulted in new forms for delivering learning, together with new terms for describing them. This book provides a framework for those who are new to the field of distributed learning.

At a time of increasing globalisation, the concept of open and distance learning is being constantly redefined. New technologies have opened up new ways of understanding and participating in Learning. Distributed Learning offers a collection of perspectives from a social and cultural practice-based viewpoint, with contributions from leading international authors in the field. Key issues in this comprehensive text are:
*the challenges of ICT to traditional teaching and learning practices
*the value and relevance of 'activity theory' and 'communities of practice' in educational institutions and the workplace
*perspectives on the relationship between globalisation and distributed learning, and the breakdown of distinctions between global and local contexts
*issues of identity and community in designing courses for the virtual student
*language and literacies in distributed learning contexts
This book provides useful introductory reading, building a sound theoretical framework for practitioners interested in how distributed learning is shaping post-compulsory education.

Lea, Mary R.; Nicoll, Kathy

1. Information, Knowledge and Learning: Some Issues Facing Epistemology and Education in a Digital Age 2. Informed Opportunism: teaching for Learning in Uncertain Contexts of Distributed Education 3. Legitimate Peripheral Participation in Communities of Practice 4. Looking Beyond the Interface: Activity Theory and Distributed Learning 5. Workplaces, Communities and Pedagogy: An Activity Theory View 6. Distribution and Interconnectedness: the Globalisation of Education 7. The English Language and 'Global' Teaching 8. From Independent Learning to Collaborative Learning: New Communities of Practice in Open, Distance and Distributed Learning 9. Learning as Cultural Practice 10. The University Campus as a 'Resourceful Constraint': Process and Practice in the Construction of the Virtual University 11. Identity, Community and Distributed Learning 12. Flexible Literacies: Distributed Learning and Changing Educational Spaces

Erscheint lt. Verlag	29.11.2001
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	570 g
Themenwelt	Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Unterrichtsvorbereitung ► Unterrichts-Handreichungen
	Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Theorie / Studium
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
ISBN-10	0-415-26808-7 / 0415268087
ISBN-13	978-0-415-26808-0 / 9780415268080
Zustand	Neuware