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Digital Education

Opportunities for Social Collaboration

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  • © 2011

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  1. Michael Thomas
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Part of the book series: Digital Education and Learning (DEAL)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Digital Education: Opportunities, Challenges, and Responsibilities

    1. Digital Education: Opportunities, Challenges, and Responsibilities

      • Michael Thomas
      Pages 1-5

  4. Applying Digital Education

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 121-121
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    2. Virtual Learning Environments: Personalizing Learning or Managing Learners?

      • Philip Banyard, Jean Underwood, Lianne Kerlin, James Stiller
      Pages 123-141

    3. Teaching Spanish in Second Life

      • Dafne González, Cristina Palomeque, Paul Sweeney
      Pages 143-166

    4. “The Wisdom of Practice”: Web 2.0 as a Cognitive and Community-Building Tool in Indonesia

      • Mary Burns, Petra Wiyakti Bodrogini
      Pages 167-193

    5. Teaching Research Methods with Social Media

      • Kelli S. Burns
      Pages 195-218

    6. Deconstructing Formal and Informal Learning Spaces with Social Networking Sites

      • Joannah Portman Daley
      Pages 219-238

    7. Digital Education: Beyond the “Wow” Factor

      • Stephen Bax
      Pages 239-256

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 257-269
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About this book

A collection of content-based chapters and case studies examining the pedagogical potential and realities of digital literacies in education. The book aims to examine a number of foundational aspects of Web 2.0 technologies and social media applications and to understand the implications for teaching, learning, and professional development.

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"This volume is at once a wake-up call to 21st-century educators and an intriguing glimpse at possible futures for teaching and learning with digital technologies." -Kenneth Reeder, Professor, Department of Language and Literacy Education, the University of British Columbia

"Digital Education introduces a healthy corrective to exaggerated techno-optimism or techno-pessimism. The thought-provoking edited collection represents one of the first serious attempts to examine how Web 2.0 may not only improve but also help transform education. Contributors to the book bring a wide range of social theory to the task . . . And they apply this theory to examining incipient efforts to deploy Web 2.0 tools in a broad range of formal educational settings, especially at the tertiary and adult level. Chapters from and about Australia, Canada, Germany, Indonesia, South Africa, Spain, the UK, the US, and Venezuela result in a diverse international discussion that is not common in educational research, and this breadth helps us to better understand the relationship of theory to practice. . . . The contributions in this book represent an especially broad and thoughtful overview of where we have come on these issues and where we stand today." -Professor Mark Warschauer, University of California, Irvine

About the authors

Michael Thomas is Associate Professor in Digital Education and Learning at the University of Central Lancashire, UK.

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