Re-Thinking E-Learning Research

Foundations, Methods, and Practices

von Norm Friesen

268 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

In the rapidly-changing world of the Internet and the Web, theory and research struggle to keep up with technological, social, and economic developments. In education in particular, a proliferation of novel practices, applications, and forms – from bulletin boards to Webcasts, from online educational games to open educational resources – have come to be addressed under the rubric of «e-learning». In response to these phenomena, Re-thinking E-Learning Research introduces a number of research frameworks and methodologies relevant to e-learning. The book outlines methods for the analysis of content, narrative, genre, discourse, hermeneutic-phenomenological investigation, and critical and historical inquiry. It provides examples of pairings of method and subject matter that include narrative research into the adaptation of blogs in a classroom setting; the discursive-psychological analysis of student conversations with artificially intelligent agents; a genre analysis of an online discussion; and a phenomenological study of online mathematics puzzles. Introducing practical applications and spanning a wide range of the possibilities for e-learning, this book will be useful for students, teachers, and researchers in e-learning.

• Reihe: Counterpoints
• ISBN: 9781433101359
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 04.12.2008
• Genre: Pädagogik
• Verlag: Peter Lang Publishing Inc. New York