E-learning Theory and Practice
- Caroline Haythornthwaite - University of British Colombia, Canada
- Richard Andrews - University of East Anglia, UK
Professor William H. Dutton, Director of the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford
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
- emphasising 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.
'Areas such as learning communities, e-learning ecologies and ubiquitous learning are discussed at a conceptual level, which all culminate with purposeful conclusions and indicators for future research'
- Paul Dolan, Learning and Teaching Update
This book provides an interesting introduction and exploration on e-learning. There are sections which help put a relatively new learning mode into context (a history of IT development for example) with up to date reading lists, and personal accounts of academics' experiences and work in the e-learning field. This makes for a comprehensive text which puts the learning practices into context, acknowledging theoretical positions on learning and highlighting real examples of the progress and potential development in e-learning. The book takes examples from around the world and concludes by considering how research in e-learning can be further developed.
I am still in the process of revising an EdTech certificate at my institution. Where I was considering the text was in a learning theory and technology course. Since the book does not fit the course to fully integrate the content,
I would be interested in writing a book on the topic of learning theory and technology. Although this text E-Learning Theory and Practice supports the topic, I cannot find one text suitable for my university audience which spans Pre-K through 16 educators as well as students from a business/technical background.
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.
A very sound practical book which has led to some valuable discussions of the challenges and advantages of e-learning. Thought-provoking and practical.
I am going to use it as supplemental text book. It gives an information about theory of e-learning with practice. I strongly suggest it others.
I have found this book useful when planning future programmes - how to utlise e-learning
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.
There was no e learning in place atthis time.
This may change as next year we are undertaking a new course programme which will be e learning focussed.
A very useful and enjoyable read well structured, laid out and very informative.
