Rennie, Frank and Mason, Robin (2004). The Connecticon: learning for the connected generation. United States of America: Information Age Publishing Inc.
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This book makes the case that the changes brought about by the connectivity of the Internet have so transformed the nature of post secondary learning that we need to view it differently. Both the content and the processes of learning have been profoundly altered because of the accessibility of information and the multi-way interactivity provided by the Internet. We call this new phenomenon ‘the Connecticon’ – which encompasses the new opportunies created by the infrastructure, the content, the multiple connection devices of the Web, as well as by the hyper-interactivity of the connected generation for whom attention is the new currency. It is the aim of this book to identify and document the Connecticon – its nature, its impact and its implications. We will do this in the broad domain of learning, though a similar study could be carried out in commercial, social or political fields.
|Item Type:||Authored Book|
|Keywords:||community; connected learning; pervasive learning; informal learning|
|Academic Unit/Department:||Institute of Educational Technology|
|Interdisciplinary Research Centre:||Centre for Research in Education and Educational Technology (CREET)|
|Depositing User:||Robin Mason|
|Date Deposited:||25 Jan 2007|
|Last Modified:||04 Oct 2016 09:57|
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