Networked learning environments

Jones, Chris (2013). Networked learning environments. In: Keppell, Mike; Souter, Kay and Riddle, Matthew eds. Physical and Virtual Learning Spaces in Higher Education: Concepts for the Modern Learning Environment. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, pp. 102–118.

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Abstract

This chapter introduces the idea of networked learning environments and argues that these environments provide the totality of surrounding conditions for learning in digital networks. It provides illustrative vignettes of the ways that students appropriate networked environments for learning. The chapter then examines the notion of networked learning environments in relation to the idea of infrastructure and infrastructures for learning and sets out some issues arising from this perspective. The chapter suggests that students and teachers selectively constitute their own contexts and that design can only have an indirect effect on learning. The chapter goes on to argue that design needs to be located at the meso level of the institution and that a solution to the problem of indirect design lies in refocusing design at the meso level and on the design of infrastructures for learning.

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• Item ORO ID
• 29172
• Item Type
• Book Section
• ISBN
• 1-60960-114-9, 978-1-60960-114-0
• Keywords
• networked learning; design for learning; indirect design; infrastructure for learning
• Academic Unit or School
• Institute of Educational Technology (IET)
• Copyright Holders
• © 2012 IGI Global
• Depositing User
• Chris Jones