The Theory, Practice and Pedagogy of Networked Learning

Networked Learning and Postdigital Education

“…Value has to be placed on students' learning how to belong to a learning community and how to discover and practice how to take part in the community. As Hodgson et al (2012) put it: There is a tangible shift during the history of a learning community from seeing itself as a group of individual learners, to the members seeing themselves as people learning in a social environment where collaboration and cooperation is excepted and rewarded. The learners come to own the value of seeing learning as Bcommunity^, and we believe that this value can be transferred into the wider socio-political lives of the learners^.…”

Networked Learning

“…In the conclusions to the same volume Hodgson et al ( 2012 ) extend this and overtly discuss the political positioning of networked learning in relation to ontology and epistemology. They argue that networked learning questions the nature of society and how new knowledge is developed, emphasising collaboration and sharing as both a pedagogical and social goal.…”

“…However there is no single book that sets out the fi eld from a single perspective. There are several edited collections (Steeples and Jones 2002 ; Goodyear et al 2004 ;Dirckinck-Holmfeld et al 2009Hodgson et al 2012 ) but no single authored text. There are books that are close to networked learning , but networked learning is frequently confused with other approaches to technology and learning and sometimes even otherwise well-informed academic work assumes that networked learning is just another term that equates with e-learning, technologyenhanced learning (TEL) and a number of other general terms.…”

Open online spaces of professional learning: Context, personalisation and facilitation

“…Learning spaces such as these Twitter discussion events demonstrate the competing forces of newer technologies and the related practices of social and collaborative learning against the rhetoric of learner autonomy and control found in the advocacy of PLEs (Hodgson, McConnell, & Dirckinck-Holmfeld, 2012).…”