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July 3, 2025
Rethinking Learning for a Digital Age:How learners are shaping their own experiences
- Author
- Sharpe, Rhona, Beetham, Helen, and Freitas Sara de
- Publisher
- Routledge, New York, NY
- ISBN
- 9780415875431
- Book Review Link
- http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/teth.12011/abstract
- Table of Contents
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Foreword
An introduction to rethinking learning
Part I. New contexts for learning
ch. 1 The influence of pervasive and integrative tools on learners’ experiences and expectations of study
ch. 2 Social networking: key messages from the research
ch. 3 Managing study and life with technology
ch. 4 Constructs that impact the Net Generation’s satisfaction with online learning
ch. 5 Provisionality, play and pluralism in liminal spaces
Part II. Frameworks for understanding learners’ experiences
ch. 6 Understanding students’ uses of technology for learning: towards creative appropriation
ch. 7 Expanding conceptions of study, context and educational design
ch. 8 How learners change: critical moments, changing minds
ch. 9 Listening with a different ear: understanding disabled students’ relationship with technologies
ch. 10 Strengthening and weakening boundaries: students negotiating technology mediated learning
Part III. New learning practices
ch. 11 The changing practices of knowledge and learning
ch. 12 Analysing digital literacy in action – a case study of a problem orientated learning process
ch. 13 Collaborative knowledge building
ch. 14 ‘But it’s not just developing like a learner, it’s developing as a person’: Reflections on e-portfolio based learning
ch. 15 Skills and strategies for e-learning in a participatory culture
Index
Rethinking Learning for a Digital Age addresses the complex and diverse experiences of learners in a world embedded with digital technologies. The text combines first-hand accounts from learners with extensive research and analysis, including a developmental model for effective e-learning, and a wide range of strategies that digitally-connected learners are using to fit learning into their lives. A companion to Rethinking Pedagogy for a Digital Age (2007), this book focuses on how learners’ experiences of learning are changing and raises important challenges to the educational status quo.
Moves beyond stereotypes of the net generation to explore the diversity of e-learning experiences today • *Analyses learners' experiences holistically, across the many technologies and learning opportunities they encounter • *Reveals digital-age learners as creative actors and networkers in their own right, who make strategic choices about their use of digital applications and learning approaches
Today’s learners are active participants in their learning experiences and are shaping their own educational environments. Professors, learning practitioners, researchers, and policy-makers will find Rethinking Learning for a Digital Age invaluable for understanding the learning experience, and shaping their own responses. (From the Publisher)
Moves beyond stereotypes of the net generation to explore the diversity of e-learning experiences today • *Analyses learners' experiences holistically, across the many technologies and learning opportunities they encounter • *Reveals digital-age learners as creative actors and networkers in their own right, who make strategic choices about their use of digital applications and learning approaches
Today’s learners are active participants in their learning experiences and are shaping their own educational environments. Professors, learning practitioners, researchers, and policy-makers will find Rethinking Learning for a Digital Age invaluable for understanding the learning experience, and shaping their own responses. (From the Publisher)