E-learning Theory and Practice
- Caroline Haythornthwaite - University of British Colombia, Canada
- Richard Andrews - University of East Anglia, UK
In E-learning Theory and Practice the authors set out different perspectives on e-learning. The book deals with the social implications of e-learning, its transformative effects, and the social and technical interplay that supports and directs e-learning.
The authors present new perspectives on the subject by:
- Exploring the way teaching and learning are changing with the presence of the Internet and participatory media
- Providing a theoretical grounding in new learning practices from education, communication and information science
- Addressing e-learning in terms of existing learning theories, emerging online learning theories, new literacies, social networks, social worlds, community and virtual communities, and online resources
- Emphasizing the impact of everyday electronic practices on learning, literacy and the classroom, locally and globally.
This book is for everyone involved in e-learning. Teachers and educators will gain an understanding of new learning practices, and learners will gain a sense of their new role as active participants in classroom and lifelong learning. Graduate students and researchers will gain insight into the direction of research in this new and exciting area of education and the Internet.
This book is an excellent resource for those student continuuing their education on the Foundation degree programme. It highlights the process of learning from an 'e' perspective and provides an insight into how the learning process of individuals can be nurtured by the use of technology such as VLEs and other platforms. It is however an essential book for all lecturers and PGCE students who need to understand e-learning in this dynamic time of educational change.
This book is an excellent starting point for students looking to consider and discuss the use of e-learning in an educational context. It helped my childhood studies students to see the uses of e-learning to support learning. It also helps them to think outside the box, something that many students find difficult to do despite the technological age we live in.
This book will not be as useuful in my teaching as I had hoped but could assist my own development of e learning for my students. There are parts that I may use with students.
A very thorough and informative text, well referenced and thought provoking. As an online tutor I found this very interesting reading, it offers great support for those teaching, studying or justifying online courses. An excellent source of knowledge for discussions with colleagues and students. Loved it!
On our BSc Education single and combined programmes we have a year 2 option module (ICT & Digital Literacies) which will be starting this October and so we are looking to get copies of this text for the library and also for it to be on the reading list (likely as supplementary reading but still to be determined at this stage). We also have a year 1 module (Curriculum Design) on these programmes and this coming year ICT and the curriculum is one of the areas we will be looking at with students and hence this text (certainly several chapters within it) will be extremely useful for that module as well. I would anticipate it to be supplementary reading for this latter module.
With students now using the internet, to gain information there is a need for students to understand how they can become acticely involved in their learning. In addition it helps educationalists consider the theory underpinning their changing role in facilitating their students' learning
Excellent books that links online learning with the theory that underpins it.
This text links the past to contemporary e-learning practice. It helps to clarify how e-learning has grown and developed and why more work is needed. The narrative style enables the reader to easily engage with the wide range of issues presented. Overall, this is a good foundation text from which to explore the subject further.
Useful accessible text. Worthy bookshelf purchase.
