3rd Edition
Rethinking Pedagogy for a Digital Age Principles and Practices of Design
Rethinking Pedagogy for a Digital Age examines contemporary issues in the design and delivery of effective learning through a critical discussion of the theoretical and professional perspectives informing current digital education practice. This third edition has been thoroughly revised to address socio-cultural approaches, learning analytics, curriculum change, and key theoretical developments from education sciences. Illustrated by case studies across disciplines and continents for a diversity of researchers, practitioners, and lecturers, the book is an essential guide to learning technologies that is pedagogically sound, learner-focused, and accessible.
An introduction to rethinking pedagogy
Helen Beetham and Rhona Sharpe
PART ONE
Theories and principles
1. Learning theory and the new science of learning
Terry Mayes
2. Learning activities and activity systems
Helen Beetham
3. The analysis of complex learning environments
Peter Goodyear and Lucila Carvalho
4. A view from social science: foundational issues for design
Chris Jones
5. The Community of Inquiry theoretical framework: designing collaborative online and blended learning
Martha Cleveland-Innes
PART TWO
Practices
6. Learning designs as a stimulus and support for teachers’ design practices
Shirley Agostinho, Sue Bennett, Lori Lockyer, Jennifer Jones and Barry Harper
7. The challenge of teachers’ design practice
Liz Masterman
8. Designing for learning within an organisational context
Rhona Sharpe and Alejandro Armellini
9. Open education: design and policy considerations
Catherine Cronin
10. Frameworks to guide practice
Gráinne Conole
PART THREE
Influences and futures
11. Design principles for learning with mobile devices
Agnes Kukulska-Hulme and John Traxler
12. Designs for professional learning
Rachel H. Ellaway
13. Datafication of education: a critical approach to emerging analytics technologies and practices
Ben Williamson
14. Student as producer is hacking the university
Joss Winn and Dean Lockwood
PART FOUR
Resources
Biography
Helen Beetham is an independent researcher, writer and adviser on issues in digital learning. She is a long-standing consultant to Jisc (UK) and has worked with a number of global universities on their digital education strategies.
Rhona Sharpe is Professor and Head of the Department of Technology Enhanced Learning at the University of Surrey and Associate Lecturer for the Institute of Educational Technology at the Open University, UK.
"This book draws on past knowledge and experience about teaching and learning, sets it within the current context of a digital age, and provides theory and practices that will enable us to prepare better our students for the future."
—Tony Bates, Distinguished Visiting Professor, The G. Raymond Chang School of Continuing Education, Ryerson University, Canada, from the Foreword