How Education Works Teaching, Technology, and Technique

• Main Author: Dron, John (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Canada Athabasca University Press 2023
• Series: Issues in Distance Education 1919-4390
• Subjects: Open learning, home learning, distance education; Education theory, hard technology, soft technology, educational technology, pedagogy, tool, coparticipation, distributed cognition, extended mind, collective intelligence, complex adaptive system, complexity, complexivism, constructivism, behavourism, philosophy of technology, artificial intelligence, assessment, grades, distance learning, e-learning, online learning, in-person learning, learning environment
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

In this engaging volume, Jon Dron views education, learning, and teaching through a technological lens that focuses on the parts we play in technologies, from language and pedagogies to computers and regulations. He proposes a new theory of education whereby individuals are not just users but co-par...