Product Description

Packed full with case studies from multi disciplines and with a helpful appendix of tools and resources, this book is an essential guide to effective design and implementation of sound e-learning activities.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #35256 in Books
• Published on: 2007-04-26
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 288 pages

From the Back Cover

E-learning is no longer seen as a technical and administrative tool, existing simply to deliver content. Practitioners continue to seek guidance on pedagogically sound, learner-focused and accessible learning activities, and learning contexts are increasingly rich in electronic and mobile technologies. This book examines different perspectives on effectively designing and delivering learning activities to ensure that future development is driven by pedagogy.

Rethinking Pedagogy for a Digital Age is a critical discussion of the issues surrounding the design, sharing and reuse of learning activities. It offers tools that practitioners can apply to their own concerns and incorporates a variety of contexts including face-to-face, self-directed, blended, and distance learning modes, as well as a range of theories of learning and roles of technology. Topics discussed include:

• Specific activities for achieving learning outcomes
• Technologies’ uses for learning and their role in educational design
• Current systems and future developments
• Learners’ competencies and approaches
• Designing for mobile technologies
• Practitioner development
• Sustainability, organizational barriers and learning communities

Aiming to bring the insights of learning design into the educational process, and to extend the repertoire of tools and techniques in everyday use, Rethinking Pedagogy for a Digital Age is an essential guide to effective design and implementation of sound e-learning activities. It is illustrated by case studies from the disciplines and includes helpful appendices of tools and resources essential for researchers, practitioners and teachers in higher and further education.

Helen Beetham is an independent consultant in e-Learning, working for the Joint Information Systems Committee’s (UK) e-Learning and Pedagogy programme.

Rhona Sharpe is a staff and educational developer in the Oxford Centre for Staff and Learning Development (OCSLD) and a member of the Centre for e-Learning team at Oxford Brookes University, UK.

Open and Distance Learning / Higher Education

About the Author

Helen Beetham is an independent consultant in eLearning, working for the Joint Information Systems Committee’s (UK) eLearning and Pedagogy programme.

Rhona Sharpe is a staff and educational developer in the Oxford Centre for Staff and Learning Development (OCSLD) and a member of the Centre for eLearning team at Oxford Brookes University, UK.

Customer Reviews

A HE persective of e-learning pedagogy
As a university lecturer involved in developing online courses I understand the arguments about focusing on the learning and not in the content, which is the current view-point. We should focus on design for learning and not design of materials.

The main focus of the book is learning design. There are some excellent chapters discussing learning theory and the background to learning and there are some excellent examples in the second part of the book when they look at applications. The final chapter in particular is an excellent summary.

In between there are some chapters that simply forget that a design is useless if it is not practical to implement. In these chapters they over-theorise and forget that we are only going to go forward with an experiential understanding of how new technology will make an impact.

An excellent compilation of many authors.
An impressive text-book for all thinking educationists. - However, like orange-squash perhaps it needs diluting at times.

Each chapter is well-written by experts in their individual fields, thus making this book an excellent textbook for HE studies.

My only slight complaint, as with many other texts on the subject, is that the focus is primarily on HE and leaves the translation of principles to all other sectors of education to the reader.

Perhaps chapters on how e-Pedagogy is changing Primary, Secondary, FE and Adult Education could be included in a second volume?

Excellent overview of pedagogy in a digital age
This book gave an excellent overview of many of the complex issues surrounding pedagogy in a digital age. It would be a useful book for anyone who is thinking about becoming a teacher or who is a teacher. It should be a set text for managers in education.