Full Description
This book develops selected papers from the 14th International Networked Learning Conference (NLC) 2024 hosted by the University of Malta. It explores the evolving role of networked learning in fostering pedagogies of hope, addressing current challenges like AI in education while imagining new futures. Section 1, Imaginaries in Networked Learning, examines postdigital citizenship, waste stories, and decolonial approaches. Section 2, Crossing Contexts with Networked Learning, highlights how social media, situated readiness, and digital craftsmanship expand learning environments. Section 3, Using AI in Networked Learning, explores AI's role in teaching from posthuman and multicultural leadership perspectives. Section 4, Experience and agency in Networked Learning, reflects on augmented reality and educators' lived experiences during crises. The selected chapters were chosen as cutting-edge research on networked learning which reflected focal discussion points during the conference. This book will be of particular interest to educators and education researchers.
Contents
Introduction.- Opening a networked learning dialogue on postdigital citizen science and humanities.- Waste Stories: Networking Imaginaries.- Postcolonial Entry Points into Networked Learning.- University Students, Social Media, and Purposeful Use: Networked Knowledge Activities Across Contexts.- Traversing Situations and Contexts in Networked Learning: The Role of Situated Readiness in Business Education.- Minecrafters: An educational model for developing collaboration.- From Craftsmanship to Connectivity: Exploring Networked Learning in a Contemporary Corporate Apprenticeship Program in the United States.- A University's Digital Master Plan Designed for Sustainable Networked Learning.- Orchestrating Good Educational Relationships With(in) Automated Teaching: A Posthuman Perspective.- Technology and AI's role in multicultural and digital leadership.- Beyond the Comfort Zone: An Autoethnographic Study of Implementing Augmented Reality in Vocational Education.- Timescapes when everything happens all at once: Educator temporalities in an unequal crisis.- Emergent themes for Networked Learning as a pedagogy of hope.
