The Decentring of the Traditional University: The Future of (Self) Education in Virtually Figured Worlds

ISBN-13: 9780415550536 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 176 str.

Russell Francis;Gill Boag-Munroe

Opis

This text offers an evidence based investigation into the changing culture of university learning throughout the world. In particular it looks at the implications of media change for learning, literacy and education.

Spis treści

Introduction  1. From the Culture Industry to Participatory Culture  2. Cognitive Anthropology on the Cyberian Frontier  3. The Learner as Designer  4. Creative Appropriation, New Media and Self Education  5. Globally Distributed Funds of Living Knowledge  6. Learning through Serious Play in Virtually Figured Worlds  7 The Decentring of the Traditional University

O autorze

Russell Francis Postdoctoral Fellow at the Linnaeus Centre for Research on Learning, Interaction and Mediated Communications in Contemporary Society (LinCS), University of Gothenburg, Sweden and was formerly a Research Fellow at the Department of Education, University of Oxford, UK.