Differences between Online and Offline Learning

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* Book: Digital Difference: Perspectives on Online Learning [Paperback]. Ray Land (Editor), Siân Bayne (Editor). Sense Publishers (June 17, 2011).


Summary

Amazon's publisher summary:

'We are freer, over two decades on, to re-evaluate digital difference from new perspectives. Are digital learning environments now orthodox, or do the rapidly emerging technologies hold a new promise and a new arena of difference for pedagogical practice? What are the points of rift, and the points of continuity, between virtual learning spaces and their equivalents in the real? What qualities of difference should concern us now? The writings in this collection from three continents reflect a complex embrace of culture, power and technology. Topics range from social questions of consumption, speed, uncertainty, and risk to individual issues of identity, selfhood and desire. Ethical issues arise, involving equity and authority, as well as structural questions of order and ambiguity. From these themes emerges an engaging agenda for future educational research and practice in higher education over the coming decade."

Excerpts

See, Axel Bruns: Reconfiguring Education for the User-Led Age