Teaching Crowds - Jon Dron

Within the rapidly expanding field of educational technologylearners and educators must confront a seemingly overwhelming selectionof tools designed to deliver and facilitate both online and blendedlearning. Many of these tools assume that learning is configured anddelivered in closed contexts through learning management systems(LMS). However while traditional classroom learning is byno means obsolete networked learning is in the ascendant. Afoundational method in online and blended education as well as themost common means of informal and self-directed learning networkedlearning is rapidly becoming the dominant mode of teaching as well aslearning. In Teaching Crowds Dron and Anderson introduce a new modelfor understanding and exploiting the pedagogical potential of Web-basedtechnologies one that rests on connections - on networks andcollectives - rather than on separations. Recognizing that onlinelearning both demands and affords new models of teaching and learningthe authors show how learners can engage with social media platforms tocreate an unbounded field of emergent connections. These connectionsempower learners allowing them to draw from one another'pertise to formulate and fulfill their own educational goals. In anincreasingly networked world developing such skills will they arguebetter prepare students to become self-directed lifelong learners.

TITLE: Teaching Crowds

AUTHOR: Jon Dron

SKU: 9781927356807

PUBLISHER: AU Press

DATE PUBLISHED: 01/09/2014

PLACE PUBLISHED: Canada

PAGES: 450

BINDING: Paperback / softback

LANGUAGE: English

DIMENSIONS: 152 mm x 229 mm

WEIGHT: 580 gr