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LEARNING IN COMMUNITIES
INTERDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES ON HUMAN CENTERED INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY |
| By: |
John M. Carroll (Editor) |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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£109.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1849967865 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781849967860 |
| Publisher: |
SPRINGER LONDON LTD |
| Pub. date: |
28 October, 2010 |
| Edition: |
Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2009 |
| Series: |
Human-Computer Interaction Series |
| Pages: |
266 |
| Description: |
Because formal education cannot meet all learning needs, community learning is vital. In 2005, a group of multidisciplinary scholars met for a workshop on learning in communities, and this book is a compilation of papers that emanated from that workshop. |
| Synopsis: |
Most learning takes place in communities. People continually learn through their participation with others in everyday activities. Such learning is important in contemporary society because formal education cannot prepare people for a world that changes rapidly and continually. We need to live in learning communities.This volume gathers together all of the scholarly materials directly emanating from a workshop held in August 2005, when a multidisciplinary group of scholars met at Penn State's College of Information Sciences and Technology to discuss `learning in communities'. Initially, a sectioned report on the workshop was published as a special section in the Journal of Community Informatics in 2006. Subsequently, a special issue of 5 full papers was published in the Journal of Computer-Supported Cooperative Work, and a special section of 2 full papers was published in the International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning. |
| Illustrations: |
6 Tables, black and white; XIV, 266 p. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Springer London Ltd |
| Returns: |
Returnable |