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Jon Dron - Teaching Crowds: Learning and Social Media (Athabasca University Press) - 9781927356807 - V9781927356807
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Teaching Crowds: Learning and Social Media (Athabasca University Press)

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Description for Teaching Crowds: Learning and Social Media (Athabasca University Press) Paperback. Series: Issues in Distance Education. Num Pages: 450 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JNK; JNQ; JNU; YQS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 155 x 229 x 27. Weight in Grams: 578.

Within the rapidly expanding field of educational technology,learners and educators must confront a seemingly overwhelming selectionof tools designed to deliver and facilitate both online and blendedlearning. Many of these tools assume that learning is configured anddelivered in closed contexts, through learning management systems(LMS). However, while traditional “classroom” learning is byno means obsolete, networked learning is in the ascendant. Afoundational method in online and blended education, as well as themost common means of informal and self-directed learning, networkedlearning is rapidly becoming the dominant mode of teaching as well aslearning.

In Teaching Crowds, Dron and Anderson introduce a new model forunderstanding and exploiting the pedagogical potential of Web-basedtechnologies, one that rests on connections — on networks andcollectives — rather than on separations. Recognizing that onlinelearning both demands and affords new models of teaching and learning,the authors show how learners can engage with social media platforms tocreate an unbounded field of emergent connections. These connectionsempower learners, allowing them to draw from one another’sexpertise to formulate and fulfill their own educational goals. In anincreasingly networked world, developing such skills will, they argue,better prepare students to become self-directed, lifelong learners.

Product Details

Publisher
AU Press / UBC Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Series
Issues in Distance Education
Condition
New
Weight
578 g
Number of Pages
450
Place of Publication
EDMONTON, Canada
ISBN
9781927356807
SKU
V9781927356807
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1

About Jon Dron
Jon Dron is associate professor in the School ofComputing and Information Systems and a member of theTechnology-Enhanced Knowledge Research Institute at AthabascaUniversity. His current research concerns the social aspects oflearning technologies, with an emphasis on methods and technologiesthat enable learners to help each other. He is the author ofControl and Constraint in E-Learning: Choosing When toChoose. Terry Anderson is professor and researcher in theTechnology-Enhanced Knowledge Research Centre at Athabasca University.His research interests focus on interaction and social media ineducational contexts. He is the editor of The Theory and Practiceof Online Learning, 2nd ed., winner of the 2009 Charles E.Wedemeyer Award.

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