Control and Constraint in E-Learning: Choosing When to Choose - Hardcover

Dron, Jon

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1599043904 ISBN 13: 9781599043906

Publisher: Information Science Publishing, 2007

Synopsis

Every learner is on a trajectory, an individual path that involves choices about what to do next in order to learn, choices that are bounded by intrinsic and extrinsic constraints. In some cases the learner controls those choices, sometimes they are made by someone or something else, sometimes control is negotiated, or it emerges from complex interactions of many agents. Control and Constraint in E-Learning: Choosing When to Choose pulls apart that simple dynamic, examines it in detail, and explores its consequences to provide a new, theoretically grounded approach to the design of e-learning systems, to the benefit of teachers, programmers, researchers and instructional designers alike. In addition to shedding new light on traditional e-learning systems, it demonstrates that the social technologies underpinning Web 2.0 are fundamentally different in their dynamics of control and, consequently, when designed and used with care, offer benefits that significantly exceed the promise of their forebears.

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Control and Constraint in E-Learning Every learner is on a trajectory, an individual path that involves choices and decisions about where to go next. The innovative thought of e-learning is reaching astronomical proportions and is becoming processed into these trajectories, usually under some sort of constraint. Control and Constraint in E-Learning: Choosing When to Choose answers the questions on how those constraints operate, how l Full description

Edition details

• Publisher: Information Science Publishing
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1599043904
• ISBN 13: 9781599043906
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 368