The Design, Experience and Practice of Networked Learning
EDITED by Vivien Hodgson, Maarten de Laat, David McConnell and Thomas Ryberg
The book deals with four themes: practice as epistemology; the coupling of learning contexts (that is, the relationship and connection of learning contexts and spaces); the agency and active role of technology within networked learning; and the messy, often chaotic and always political nature of the design, experience and practice of networked learning. Each of these themes has implications for how we view networked learning and thus how we think about it in terms of design, experience and practice.
Contents
1 Researching Design, Experience and Practice of Networked Learning: An Overview
Vivien Hodgson, Maarten de Laat, David McConnell, and Thomas Ryberg
Part I Networked Learning Spaces and Context: Design and Practice
2 Implications for Networked Learning of the ‘Practice’ Side of Social Practice Theories: A Tacit-Knowledge Perspective
Nina Bonderup Dohn
3 Designing for Learning in Coupled Contexts
Janne Gleerup, Simon Heilesen, Niels Henrik Helms, and Kevin Mogensen
4 Making the Right Connections: Implementing the Objects of Practice into a Network for Learning
John Hannon
5 Teachers’ Use of Learning Technology in a South Asian Context
Uzair Shah
Part II Networked Learning in Practice: The Expected and Unexpected
6 ‘Here Be Dragons’: Approaching Difficult Group Issues in Networked Learning
Linda Perriton and Michael Reynolds
7 Understanding Emerging Knowledge Spillovers in Small-Group Learning Settings: A Networked Learning Perspective
Bart Rienties, Nuria Hernandez Nanclares, Juliette Hommes, and Koen Veermans
8 Changing the Rules of the Game: Using Blogs for Online Discussions in Higher Education
Hanne Westh Nicolajsen
9 Blended Problem-Based Learning: Designing Collaboration Opportunities for Unguided Group Research Through the Use of Web 2.0 Tools
Richard Walker
Part III The Practice of Informal Networked Learning
10 Online Learning Communities for Teachers’ Continuous Professional Development: An Action Research Study of eTwinning Learning Events
Brian Holmes and Julie-Ann Sime
11 Analysing Learning Ties to Stimulate Continuous Professional Development in the Workplace
Bieke Schreurs
12 Learning Through Network Interaction: The Potential of Ego-Networks
Asli U¨nlu¨soy, Mariette de Haan, and Kevin Leander
13 Mobile Learning and Immutable Mobiles: Using iphones to Support Informal Learning in Craft Brewing
Steve Wright and Gale Parchoma
The book is available as e-book and Softcover Edition at springer.com
