Rethinking Learning for a Digital Age: How Learners are Shaping their Own Experiences

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. Rethinking Learning for a Digital Age: <ul>
<li>moves beyond stereotypes of the "net generation" to explore the diversity of e-learning experiences today</li> <li>analyses learners' experiences holistically, across the many technologies and learning opportunities they encounter</li> <li>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.</li>
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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.

Rethinking Learning for a Digital Age

Computers & Technology

Sharpe, Rhona

Beetham, Helen

de Freitas, Sara

Software

Routledge

Rethinking Learning for a Digital Age: How Learners Are Shaping Their Own Experiences

Students today need to learn effectively online. This book provides ways to develop successful online learners in all types of context - fully online or blended, or technology-enriched traditional teaching. The topics covered are wide-ranging. They include: self-organisation and self-awareness; contributing and collaborating; personalizing the learning environment; maximising time on task; and developing practices for lifelong learning. Research has shown that although learners in higher education may be familiar with using technology in their social lives, they do not always use effective strategies when learning online. Drawing on research into student experiences, this book provides 53 practical ideas for teachers and lecturers. Each idea provides a learning activity to help students develop their study skills and habits, so that they can learn confidently and effectively in the digital age. The book is designed to dip into for ideas that dovetail with teachers' own practice.

53 Interesting Ways to Support Online Learning (Professional and Higher Education)

Education & Teaching

Higher & Continuing Education

Professional and Higher Partnership

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