Book Title: Learning in the Digital Age

Author: Tutaleni I. Asino

Book Description: Rebecca Bayeck, Wilmon Brown, Raymond W. Francis, Tammi Kolski, Kathy Essmiller, Cathy L. Green, Sarah L. Lewis, Corrine McCabe, Josephine Shikongo, Tammy Wise.


This book is a work in progress; and will hopefully remain that way in perpetuity; where authors will come back and update their chapters and others will add more chapter. It is aimed to serve as a textbook for classes exploring the nature of learning in the digital age. The genesis of this book is a desire to use OERs in all my teachings, coupled with the realization that the resources that I was looking for were not available and as such I needed to contribute in creating them. This book is a minor attempt to contribute to the vast repository of Open Educational Resources.

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Book Description

This book is designed to serve as a textbook for classes exploring the nature of learning in the digital age. The genesis of this book is a desire to use OERs in all my teachings, coupled with the realization that the resources that I was looking for were not available and as such I needed to contribute in creating them. It is thus a small attempt to contribute to the vast repository of Open Educational Resources.

When discussing learning in the digital age, most focus on the technology first. However, the emphasis made in this book is that it’s about the learner not just the technology. One of the things that is easy to lose track of when talking about learning in the digital age is the learner. Technology is important and it has significant impact but it is still about the person who is using the technology. Many people conflate learning in the digital age with technology in today’s age. This important misconception is common and results from our failure to examine our understanding of what “learning” really is. Of course, Most of this depends on a person’s epistemology. There are numerous definitions of what learning is and often they come to how a person sees the world. Some argue that learning is about a change in behavior due to experiences, others state simply that learning is being able to do something new that you were not able to do before. Regardless of what side you choose, to understand what learning in the digital age is, one has to understand what learning itself is.

I am immensely thankful to the authors for sharing their ideas freely and for the reviewers who volunteered their time to give feedback.

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Tutaleni I. Asino

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Educational equipment and technology, computer-aided learning (CAL)

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Title
Learning in the Digital Age
Author
Tutaleni I. Asino
Editor
Tutaleni I. Asino
License

Icon for the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

Learning in the Digital Age Copyright © 2020 by Tutaleni Asino is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.

 

Primary Subject
Educational equipment and technology, computer-aided learning (CAL)
Additional Subject(s)
Higher education, tertiary education, Open learning, distance education, Education, Digital and information technologies: social and ethical aspects
Publisher
Oklahoma State University Libraries
Publication Date
August 28, 2020