The Changing Face of Learning Technology

Gabriel Jacobs

ISBN 10: 0708316816 / ISBN 13: 9780708316818

Published by University of Wales Press, GB, 2000

About this Item

The book will consist of a dozen seminal articles published since Alt-J was first launched in 1993. Each original article will be supplemented by a 500- word update. The book will illustrate how the area of learning technology has developed since the journal was first launched. It will examine to what extent predictions about the use and role of learning technology, have or have not come true. For example the significance and impact of the Internet on learning and teaching could not have been predicted seven years ago. This will be reflected in the introduction, which will justify the choice of articles and provide a context for the work.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Changing Face of Learning Technology
• Publisher: University of Wales Press, GB
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0708316816
• ISBN 13: 9780708316818
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: New
• Weight: 386 grams

About this title

Synopsis

The use of new technologies in education developed rapidly in the 1990s, as, for example, with the Internet, whose impact on educational practice could not have been predicted seven years ago. Much is now expected of this technology, but has its adoption led to the development of genuinely innovative approaches to teaching and learning?

Originally published in the journal Alt-J, the papers collected in The Changing Face of Learning Technology illustrate how the field of learning technology has developed since the journal was launched in 1993. The volume is divided into four sections: design and evaluation of technology-mediated learning environments, institutional change, learning technology in a networked infrastructure, and reflections on future possibilities, and a short update of each article has been written to highlight developments in the area of the original presentation.

The distinctive approach of this collection provides an interpretative framework for an understanding of the use and design of learning technology. It is hoped that this will stimulate an appreciation of underlying issues and their significance for supporting learning and teaching in both higher and further education.

About the Author

David Squires is Professor of Educational Computing at King’s College, London

Gráinne Conole is Director of the Institute for Learning and Research at Bristol University.

Gabriel Jacobs is Professor of European Business Management at University of Wales, Swansea.