Topics covered include:
• Theory that informs practice – emerging models and understanding from academia;
• Research – new understandings of learning, collaborative sense-making, and learning preferences;
• The Practitioner view – real examples from around the world of ground-breaking developments in online learning that are transforming education, adult learning and corporate training;
• Guidance for designers and producers – pedagogical advice and skills for a range of people who may have had little exposure to the body of knowledge surrounding learning design;
• Looking to the future – what to expect in the next 5 to 10 years and how to prepare to take full advantage of the opportunities that an increasingly connected society will provide for learner-managed learning.
The second volume of this bestselling guide addresses key gaps in the available literature including the inequality of access to technologically enabled learning and cutting-edge design issues and pedagogies that will take us into the next decade of eLearning and future Web 3.0+ approaches.
Brian Sutton is the founder and director of Learning4Leaders, an educational consulting group in the UK. [email protected]
Anthony “Skip” Basiel is an e-learning thought leader and freelance consultant as an Adobe Education Leader (alumnus), London, UK. [email protected], http://abasiel.wordpress.com