Teaching Crowds - Jon Dron

In Teaching Crowds, Jon Dron and Terry Anderson introduce anew model for understanding and exploiting the pedagogical potential ofWeb-based technologies, one that rests on connections - onnetworks and collectives - rather than on separations.Recognizing that online learning both demands and affords new models ofteaching and learning, the authors show how learners can engage withsocial media platforms to create an unbounded field of emergentconnections. These connections empower learners, allowing them to drawfrom one another's expertise to formulate and fulfill their owneducational goals. In an increasingly networked world, developing suchskills will, they argue, better prepare students to becomeself-directed, lifelong learners