Networked learning

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Networked learning is the use of Information and Communications Technology (such as the Internet) to establish and maintain connections with people and information and to communicate in such a way as to support one another's learning, hence - a networked learning.

The above definition is problematic in that it begs for the definition of "the use of ICT". So if communication happens by talking to your colleagues it's not networked learning, but if you add a video-conference in between, then it is?

Nevertheless, ICT is expanding the ways in which learning can happen, although even before computers people have used non-digital ICT to enhance their learning (granted the ICT may have consisted of paper, a quill, writing letters, but it's still 'information and communication technology').

[edit] See also

• Online learning
• Collaborative Networked Learning
• Blended learning
• Constructionist_learning

[edit] External links

• Wikiversity entry for Networked Learning
• National College for School Leadership
• Centre for Studies in Advanced Learning Technology
• A slide show with audio
• Networked Learning Conference Series.
• CSALT work on networked learning
• Centre for the Study of Networked Learning and Knowledge Building
• Connectivism is a pedagogical view or learning theory (depending on who you listen to) on networked learning

[edit] Books

• Benkler, Y (2006) The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom. Yale University Press (May 16, 2006)
• Steeples, C. and Jones, C. eds (2002) Networked Learning: Perspectives and Issues. London: Springer.
• Goodyear, P. Banks, S. Hodgson, V. and McConnell, D. eds (2004) Advances in Research on Networked Learning. London: Kluwer Academic Publishers.