Re-Thinking E-Learning Research av Norm Friesen

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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, <I>Re-thinking E-Learning Research</I> 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 d