This section really needs updating as it only deals with research up to 2004. There’s a bit of my own research that I possibly should mention (see Research), plus a plethora of new forms of media interaction for social learning. Revisiting my thesis has helped to focus what my work entails, what I am – a social learning theorist (definitely NOT a social media guru).
I will intersperse this with some comments from experience and a small bit of recent research. Read more of Previous Research
This section of my thesis started to elaborate some of the issues of working online via a computer. I have deleted a section, indicated below, because I’m not convinced it was completely right. Nevertheless, the conceptualisation of interaction with a computer is here. I should stress at this point, that I view interaction as a term to be between people, unless otherwise noted. Later in the thesis, I elaborate this. Read more of Online learning environments
Part of the set up to my thesis was establishing the shift towards Internet enabled education and the shifts toward using technology. The rapid growth of connections has had a huge impact on the ways we interact with one another. Also, as noted below, broadband access was not commonly available while I was doing my research. This needs to be accounted for within some of my assumptions. But the rapidity with which these changes have occurred and the effects of them are telling. Read more of How the Internet became central to education
Over the last few days, I have been looking at sections of my PhD to help me understand some of the processes that are happening with attempts to censor/filter the Internet as proposed by the Australian Government. One of the particular issues I have is not so much whether censorship is bad (I believe it is) or whether free speech trumps it (perhaps in a limited way), but what opportunities we forego in an attempt to protect children from ‘inadvertent’ exposure to ‘stuff we don’t like’. I use ‘we’, there, to mean society in general or at least the vocal portions of it. Read more of On being more interesting
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In my last post Hedgehogs, Foxes and the Internet Filter Debate, I mentioned a paper by Rasmussen and Ludvigsen which discussed analysing ICT reforms in education through the lens of Activity Systems. This lead me to go back to my PhD and revisit why I did not use Activity Theory as the basis for the analysis of online learning environments. The following is a slightly modified version of that treatment. Read more of Revisiting activity systems
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