This ambitious multidisciplinary volume assembles diverse
critical-theory approaches to the current and future states of networked
learning. Expert contributors expand upon the existing literature by
analyzing the ethical aspects of networked learning and the ongoing need
for more open, inclusive, and socially engaged educational practice.
Chapters explore in depth evolving concepts of real and virtual, the
processes of learning in, against, and beyond the internet, and the role
of critical pedagogy in improving social conditions. In all, coverage is
both realistic and positive about the potential of digital technologies
in higher education as well as social and academic challenges on the
horizon.
Included among the topics:
- Counting on use of technology to enhance learning.
- Decentralized networked learning through online pre-publication.
- The reality of the online teacher.
- Moving from urban to virtual spaces and back.
- The project of a virtual emancipatory pedagogy.
- Using information technologies in the service of humanity.
It is no longer a question of "Can technology enhance learning" it's a
given that it does.
Critical Learning in Digital Networks offers education researchers,
teacher educators, instructional technologists, and instructional
designers tools and methods for strengthening this increasingly vital
interconnection.