Your hub for trends, best practices and resources
542,000+ Visitors Annually!

eLearning Ecologies – Principles of New Learning and Assessment

Publication date
2017
Edited by
Bill Cope Professor, Department of Educational Policy Studies, University of Illinois
<br>
Mary Kalantzis Dean of the College of Education, University of Illinois
Link to book
Book Review

e-Learning Ecologies explores transformations in the patterns of pedagogy that accompany e-learning-the use of computing devices that mediate or supplement the relationships between learners and teachers-to present and assess learnable content, to provide spaces where students do their work, and to mediate peer-to-peer interactions. Written by the members of the “new learning” research group, this textbook suggests that e-learning ecologies may play a key part in shifting the systems of modern education, even as technology itself is pedagogically neutral. The chapters in this book aim to create an analytical framework with which to differentiate those aspects of educational technology that reproduce old pedagogical relations from those that are genuinely innovative and generative of new kinds of learning. Featuring case studies from elementary schools, colleges, and universities on the practicalities of new learning environments, e-Learning Ecologies elucidates the role of new technologies of knowledge representation and communication in bringing about change to educational institutions.

APA Citation

Cope, B. & Kalantzus, M. (Eds.). (2017). eLearning ecologies – Principles of new learning and assessment. London: Rutledge.

Target Audiences
Faculty and Instructors
Topics
Online Pedagogy
Publication date
2017
Edited by
Bill Cope Professor, Department of Educational Policy Studies, University of Illinois
Mary Kalantzis Dean of the College of Education, University of Illinois