Learning Theory and Online Technologies

Learning Theory and Online Technologies offers a powerful overview of the current state of online learning, a foundation of its historical roots and growth, and a framework for distinguishing among the major approaches to online learning. It addresses pedagogy (how to design an effective online environment for learning), evaluation (how to know that students are learning), and history (how past research can guide successful online teaching and learning outcomes).

An ideal textbook for undergraduate Education and Communication programs, and Educational Technology Masters, Ph.D., and Certificate programs, readers will find Learning Theory and Online Technologies, 2nd ed., provides a synthesis of the key advances in online education learning theory, and the key frameworks of research, and clearly links theory and research to successful learning practice. The 2nd edition of the book updates data on digital media adoption globally, adds a new chapter on connectivism as a learning theory, and updates the chapter on online collaborative learning, by renaming the theory as collaborativism. The collaborativism chapter now also considers key challenges arising with the growth of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in recent years with efforts to automate education and replace teachers with technology and discusses how collaborativism may offer a way to redesign AI to augment human teaching and learning, rather than replace it.