Challenging e-learning in the university : a literacies perspective / Robin Goodfellow and Mary R. Lea.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Goodfellow, Robin, 1947-

Contributor:

Lea, Mary R. (Mary Rosalind), 1950-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education, Higher--Computer-assisted instruction.

Education, Higher.

Education, Higher--Computer-assisted instruction--Case studies.

Internet in higher education.

Genre:

Case studies.

Physical Description:

166 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Maidenhead, England ; New York : McGraw Hill Society for Research into Higher Education & Open University Press, 2007.

Summary:

Challenging E-learning in the University takes a new approach to the growing field of e-learning in higher education. In it, the authors argue that in order to develop e-learning in the university we need to understand the texts and practices that are involved in learning and teaching using online and internet technologies.

The book develops an approach which draws together social and cultural approaches to literacies, learning and technologies, illustrating these in practice through the exploration of case studies.

It is key reading for educational developers who are concerned with the promises offered, but rarely delivered, with each new iteration of learning with technologies. It will also be of interest to literacies researchers and to HE policy makers and managers who wish to understand the contexts of e-learning.

Contents:

1 Approaches to learning: developing e-learning agendas / Mary R. Lea 9

2 Learning technologies in the university: from 'tools for learning' to 'sites of practice' / Robin Goodfellow 29

3 The social literacies of learning with technologies / Robin Goodfellow 50

4 The 'university', 'academic' and 'digital' literacies in e-learning / Mary R. Lea 70

5 A literacies approach in practice / Robin Goodfellow, Mary R. Lea 90

6 The literacies of e-learning: research directions / Robin Goodfellow, Mary R. Lea 123.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [143]-155) and indexes.

ISBN:

0335220886

9780335220885

0335220878

9780335220878

OCLC:

165407068