 | Adult Learning in the Digital Age: Information Technology and the Learning Society Subjects: Education; Open & Distance Education and eLearning; Post-Compulsory Education; Adult Education and Lifelong Learning; Lifelong Learning; This engaging book sheds light on the ways in which adults in the twenty-first century interact withnbsp;technology in different learning environments. Based on one of the first large-scale academic research projects in this area, the authors present their findingsnbsp;and offernbsp;practical recommendations for the use of new technology in a learning society. They invite 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 the wider social, economic, cultural and political realities of the information age and the learning society.Adult Learning addresses key questions and provides a sound empirical foundation to the existing debate, highlighting thenbsp;complex realities of the learning society and e-learning rhetoric. It tells the story of those who are excluded from the learning society, and offers a set ofnbsp;strong recommendations for practitioners, policy-makers, and politicians, as well as researchers and students. |
