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.
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.
List of contributors vii Editors introduction 1(15) Mary R. Lea Kathy Nicoll Information, knowledge and learning: some issues facing epistemology and education in a digital age 16(22) Colin Lankshear Michael Peters Michele Knobel Informed opportunism: teaching for learning in uncertain contexts of distributed education 38(18) Wendy Morgan Anne L. Russell Michael Ryan Legitimate peripheral participation in communities of practice 56(8) Jean Lave Etienne Wenger Looking beyond the interface: activity theory and distributed learning 64(19) David R. Russell Workplaces, communities and pedagogy: an activity theory view 83(15) Stephen Billett Distribution and interconnectedness: the globalisation of education 98(13) Richard Edwards The English language and `global teaching 111(20) Barbara Mayor Joan Swann From independent learning to collaborative learning: new communities of practice in open, distance and distributed learning 131(21) Mary Thorpe Learning as cultural practice 152(18) Charles Crook The university campus as a `resourceful constraint: process and practice in the construction of the virtual university 170(12) James Cornford Neil Pollock Identity, community and distributed learning 182(14) Gill Kirkup Flexible literacies: distributed learning and changing educational spaces 196(14) Richard Edwards Kathy Nicoll Alison Lee Index 210
Lea, Mary R.; Nicoll, Kathy
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