Teaching Crowds: Learning and Social Media

Dron, Jon; Anderson, Terry

Teaching Crowds: Learning and Social Media

dc.contributor.author	Dron, Jon
dc.contributor.author	Anderson, Terry
dc.date.accessioned	2025-08-07T07:00:09Z
dc.date.available	2025-08-07T07:00:09Z
dc.date.issued	2014
dc.description	371 p.
dc.description.abstract	Within the rapidly expanding field of educational technology, learners and educators must confront a seemingly overwhelming selection of tools designed to deliver and facilitate both online and blended learning. Many of these tools assume that learning is configured and delivered in closed contexts, through learning management systems (LMS). However, while traditional "classroom" learning is by no means obsolete, networked learning is in the ascendant. A foundational method in online and blended education, as well as the most common means of informal and self-directed learning, networked learning is rapidly becoming the dominant mode of teaching as well as learning. In Teaching Crowds, Dron and Anderson introduce a new model for understanding and exploiting the pedagogical potential of Web-based technologies, one that rests on connections — on networks and collectives — rather than on separations. Recognizing that online learning both demands and affords new models of teaching and learning, the authors show how learners can engage with social media platforms to create an unbounded field of emergent connections. These connections empower learners, allowing them to draw from one another's expertise to formulate and fulfill their own educational goals. In an increasingly networked world, developing such skills will, they argue, better prepare students to become self-directed, lifelong learners.
dc.identifier.isbn	9781927356814
dc.identifier.uri	https://oerrepository.ntt.edu.vn/handle/298300331/876
dc.language.iso	en
dc.publisher	Athabasca University Press
dc.subject	Teaching Crowds
dc.subject	Learning
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	Social Media
dc.title	Teaching Crowds: Learning and Social Media
dc.type	Book
dcterms.license	Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International