Re-thinking E-learning Research Foundations - Methods

And practices In the rapidly-changing world of the internet and the web, theory and research struggle to keep up with technological, social, and economic developments.In education in particular, a proliferation of novel practices, applications, and forms from bulletin boards to webcasts, from online educational games to open educational resources have come to be addressed under the rubric of e-learning .In response to these phenomena, re-thinking e-learning research introduces a number of research frameworks and methodologies relevant to e-learning.The book outlines methods for the analysis of content, narrative, genre, discourse, hermeneutic-phenomenological investigation, and critical and historical inquiry.It provides examples of pairings of method and subject matter that include narrative research into the adaptation of blogs in a classroom setting the discursive-psychological analysis of student conversations with artificially intelligent agents a genre analysis of an online discussion and a phenomenological study of online mathematics puzzles.Introducing practical applications and spanning a wide range of the possibilities for e-learning, this book will be useful for students, teachers, and researchers in e-learning.

And practices In the rapidly-changing world of the internet and the web, theory and research struggle to keep up with technological, social, and economic developments.In