Place-Based Spaces for Networked Learning

<p>With the boundaries of place softened and extended by digital communications technologies, learning in a networked society necessitates new distributions of activity across time, space, media, and people; and this development is no longer exclusive to formally designated spaces such as school classrooms, lecture halls, or research laboratories. <i>Place-based Spaces for Networked Learning</i> explores how qualities of physical places make both formal and informal education in a networked society possible. Through a series of investigations and case studies, it illuminates the structural composition and functioning of complex learning environments.</p><p>This book offers a wealth of key design elements and attributes for productive learning that educational designers can reuse in multiple contexts. The chapters examine how places are modified, expanded, or supplemented by networking technologies and practices in order to create spaces in which learners can collaboratively develop new understandings, connections, and capabilities. Utilizing a range of diverse but complementary perspectives from anthropology, archaeology, architecture, geography, psychology, sociology, and urban studies, <i>Place-based Spaces for Networked Learning</i> addresses how material places and digital spaces are understood; how sense can be made of new assemblages and configurations of tasks, tools, and people; how the real-time analysis of new flows of data can inform and entertain users of a space; and how access to the digital realm changes our experiences with both places and other people.</p> <p>Preface</p><p>Acknowledgements</p><p>Chapter 1. Place, space and networked learning</p><p>Lucila Carvalho, Peter Goodyear and Maarten de Laat </p><p>Chapter 2. Placing focus in the place-based spaces for networked learning</p><p>David Ashe and Nina Bonderup Dohn</p><p>Chapter 3. Educational design and birds on trees</p><p>Ana Pinto</p><p>Chapter 4. A study of correspondence, dissonance and improvisation in the design and use of a school-based networked learning environment </p><p>Pippa Yeoman</p><p>Chapter 5. Finding the spaces in-between: learning as a social material practice</p><p>Jos Boys</p><p>Chapter 6. Students physical and digital sites of study: making, marking and breaking boundaries</p><p>Lesley Gourlay and Martin Oliver</p><p>Chapter 7. The sonic spaces of online, distance learners</p><p>Michael Sean Gallagher, James Lamb and Sian Bayne</p><p>Chapter 8. Is there anybody out there? Place-based networks for learning: Netmap a tool for accessing hidden informal learning networks </p><p>Maarten de Laat and Shane Dawson</p><p>Chapter 9. Networked places as communicative resources: a social-semiotic analysis of a re-designed university library </p><p>Louise J. Ravelli and Robert J. McMurtrie</p><p>Chapter 10. Building bridges: design, emotion and museum learning</p><p>Maree Stenglin</p><p>Chapter 11. The O in MONA: reshaping museum spaces </p><p>Lucila Carvalho</p><p>Chapter 12. Practicalities of developing and deploying a handheld multimedia guide for museum visitors </p><p>Nigel Linge, Kate Booth and David Parsons </p><p>Chapter 13. Citizen Cartographer</p><p>Juliet Sprake and Peter Rogers</p><p>Chapter 14. Designing hubs for connected learning: social, spatial and technological insights from Coworking, Hackerspaces and Meetup groups </p><p>Mark Bilandzic and Marcus Foth</p><p>Chapter 15. Spaces enabling change: x-lab and science education 2020 </p><p>Tina Hinton, Pippa Yeoman, Leslie Ashor and Philip Poronnik</p><p>Chapter 16. Translating translational research on space design from the health sector to higher education – lessons learnt and challenges revealed </p><p>Robert A. Ellis and Kenn Fisher</p><p>Chapter 17. Conclusion – Place-Based Spaces for Networked Learning: Emerging Themes and Issues</p><p>Peter Goodyear, Lucila Carvalho, Vivien Hodgson and Maarten de Laat</p><p>Author Biographies</p><p>Index</p>