Exploring the Theory, Pedagogy and Practice of Networked Learning
Based on a selection of the most relevant and high quality research papers from the 2010 Networked Learning Conference, this book is an indispensible resource for all researchers, instructional designers, program managers, and learning technologists
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Lone Dirckinck-Holmfeld David McConnell
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Vivien Hodgson
Editors
Exploring the Theory, Pedagogy and Practice of Networked Learning
Editors Lone Dirckinck-Holmfeld Faculty of Humanities Aalborg University Aalborg, Denmark [email protected]
Vivien Hodgson Lancaster University Management School Lancaster University Lancaster, UK [email protected]
David McConnell Independent Consultant in Higher Education Stirling, Scotland, UK [email protected]
ISBN 978-1-4614-0495-8 e-ISBN 978-1-4614-0496-5 DOI 10.1007/978-1-4614-0496-5 Springer New York Dordrecht Heidelberg London Library of Congress Control Number: 2011938140 © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2012 All rights reserved. This work may not be translated or copied in whole or in part without the written permission of the publisher (Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 233 Spring Street, New York, NY 10013, USA), except for brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis. Use in connection with any form of information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed is forbidden. The use in this publication of trade names, trademarks, service marks, and similar terms, even if they are not identified as such, is not to be taken as an expression of opinion as to whether or not they are subject to proprietary rights. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
Dedicated to the memory of Robin Mason and Bo Fibiger, two early and significant innovators in our field whose contribution is much missed
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Foreword
In this centenary year of the birth of the Canadian media guru Marshall McLuhan, it is appropriate to see the publication of an important new book on network use in teaching and learning. Among McLuhan’s most profound observations was that “we shape our tools and then the tools shape us.” This observation, coupled with the profound increase in network use by people of all ages around the globe, helps us be cognizant of the most significant change in our “networked” society. We have created and are continually shaping our tools to applications in all domains – not excluding education. Now our tools are shaping us. Education is made up of communications, information retrieval, and knowledge production – each of which is in the midst of massive and unprecedented change. As teachers and researchers of the applied science and practice of education, we need to have a very deep understanding of network and media effects. We need to understand and become skilled in exploiting the affordances of networks and networking tools to improve the content and the context, and most importantly the effectiveness and efficiency of the learning process. In my own experiences (many echoed in the experiences related in this text) you will see the challenges faced and the successes achieved by innovators as they attempt to realize the new, while mitigating and confronting the d
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