The Experience Designer: Learning, Networks and the Cybersphere

Rating:
Summary: A Breath of Fresh Air
Review: It's so nice to read a book about e-learning that focuses on learning at a much higher level than simply transferring information.

From the book:

"We tend to think of learning in terms of lesser aims such as knowledge, skills and attitudes... If learning is to be a 'solution' to anything, it must emanate from ideas about stability, durability and sustainability in the gace of change and innovation.'

This idea alone is worth giving the book a read, but the rest of it, about networks enabling learning and the future of learning in the 'cybersphere' both echoes and expands on the work of Etienne Wenger, Verna Allee and Ross Dawson, among others. Alger also explores themes like "e-Learning hasn't yet been invented... e-Learning is not the same as e-Education and e-Training" and "The learner is not only a user of tools, but a designer and creator of them. What learners do with Internet tools is of far greater importance than what designers intended."

I predict that this book will become a classic.

Rating:
Summary: A Breath of Fresh Air
Review: It's so nice to read a book about e-learning that focuses on learning at a much higher level than simply transferring information.

From the book:

"We tend to think of learning in terms of lesser aims such as knowledge, skills and attitudes... If learning is to be a 'solution' to anything, it must emanate from ideas about stability, durability and sustainability in the gace of change and innovation.'

This idea alone is worth giving the book a read, but the rest of it, about networks enabling learning and the future of learning in the 'cybersphere' both echoes and expands on the work of Etienne Wenger, Verna Allee and Ross Dawson, among others. Alger also explores themes like "e-Learning hasn't yet been invented... e-Learning is not the same as e-Education and e-Training" and "The learner is not only a user of tools, but a designer and creator of them. What learners do with Internet tools is of far greater importance than what designers intended."

I predict that this book will become a classic.