Adult Learning in the Digital Age: Information Technology and the Learning Society
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Learning with technology is viewed globally as crucial to establishing a skilled workforce and empowering citizens by offering opportunities to those who would be otherwise excluded. Governments around the world have therefore set targets and developed policies to help all adults learn, work and live with the support of information and communications technologies (ICTs).This illuminating and engaging book sheds light on the ways in which adults in the 21st century interact with ICTs for learning at home, work and within the wider community. Based on one of the first large-scale academic research projects in this area, the authors present their rich and detailed findings to generate practical recommendations for the use of new technology in a learning society, inviting debate on:* why ICTs are believed to be capable of affecting positive change in adult learning;* the drawbacks and limits of ICT in adult education;* what makes a lifelong learner;* what people use ICT for in the home, work and community;* the wider social, economic, cultural and political realities of the information age and the learning society.Adult Learning in the Digital Age addresses key questions and provides a sound empirical foundation to the existing debate, highlighting the 'messy' realities of the learning society and 'e-learning' rhetoric, and telling the story of those who are excluded from the learning society, and offering a set of powerful and stark recommendations for practitioners, policy-makers, and politicians, as well as researchers and students.
1The promise of adult learning in the digital age12Impediments to adult learning in the digital age193Questioning adult learning in the digital age : research questions and methods354What makes a lifelong learner?605What do people use ICTs for?816Adult learning with ICTs in the home1037Bringing ICTs home : the influence of the workplace1228Adult learning with ICTs in public and community settings1399The social processes of learning to use computers16110Making sense of adult learning in a digital age17311Recommendations for future policy, practice and research190
