Adult Learning in the Digital Age: Information Technology and the Learning Society - Hardcover

Neil Selwyn; Stephen Gorard; John Furlong

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415356989 ISBN 13: 9780415356985

Publisher: Routledge, 2005

Synopsis

This engaging book sheds light on the ways in which adults in the twenty-first century interact with technology in different learning environments. Based on one of the first large-scale academic research projects in this area, the authors present their findings and offer practical recommendations for the use of new technology in a learning society. They invite debate on:

• why ICTs are believed to be capable of affecting positive change in adult learning
• the drawbacks and limits of ICT in adult education
• what makes a lifelong learner
• the wider social, economic, cultural and political realities of the information age and the learning society.

Adult Learning addresses key questions and provides a sound empirical foundation to the existing debate, highlighting the complex realities of the learning society and e-learning rhetoric. It tells the story of those who are excluded from the learning society, and offers a set of strong recommendations for practitioners, policy-makers, and politicians, as well as researchers and students.

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About the Author

Neil Selwyn, Stephen Gorard, John Furlong

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415356989
• ISBN 13: 9780415356985
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 248