E-Learning challenging ‘old’ pedagogy

Abstract

The arrival of the digital world has brought with it amazing possibilities for knowledge acquisition and its dispersal to the world’s people. Not since the arrival of the printing press has so much power been available to people to find out things, share ideas and create outcomes. Literacy levels and low income are seemingly no real barriers. Mobile technologies have changed the way we all live our lives. They transfer the power to communicate from officialdom to the hands and voices of the personal user at home. This transformation in the way we live our lives provides major challenges for educational practices that are breathtakingly complex and extraordinarily exciting. This chapter explores some of the ideas and emerging research evidence that are filtering slowly into classroom practice. How pedagogy is different in the digital age requires a ‘floating’ response.