In Teaching Crowds, Jon Dron and Terry Anderson introduce anew model for understanding and exploiting the pedagogical potential ofWeb-based technologies, one that rests on connections - onnetworks and collectives - rather than on separations.Recognizing that online learning both demands and affords new models ofteaching and learning, the authors show how learners can engage withsocial media platforms to create an unbounded field of emergentconnections. These connections empower learners, allowing them to drawfrom one another's expertise to formulate and fulfill their owneducational goals. In an increasingly networked world, developing suchskills will, they argue, better prepare students to becomeself-directed, lifelong learners
- ISBN10 1927356806
- ISBN13 9781927356807
- Publish Date 1 September 2014 (first published 1 January 2014)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country CA
- Imprint AU Press
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 450
- Language English