Learning Across Sites

The ever evolving, technology-intensive nature of the twenty-first century workplace has caused an acceleration in the division of labour, whereby work practices are becoming highly specialised and learning and the communication of knowledge is in a constant state of flux. This poses a challenge for education and learning: as knowledge and expertise increasingly evolve, how can individuals be prepared through education to participate in specific industries and organisations, both as newcomers and throughout their careers? Learning Across Sites brings together a diverse range of contributions from leading international researchers to examine the impacts and roles which evolving digital technologies have on our navigation of education and professional work environments. Viewing learning as a socially organised activity, the contributors explore the evolution of learning technologies and knowledge acquisition in networked societies through empirical research in a range of industries and workplaces. The areas of study include public administration, engineering, production, and healthcare and the contributions address the following questions: - How are learning activities organised? - How are tools and infrastructures used? - What competences are needed to participate in specialised activities? - What counts as knowledge in multiple and diverse settings? - Where can parallels be drawn between workplaces? Addressing an emerging problem of adaptation in contemporary education, this book is essential reading for all those undertaking postgraduate study and research in the fields of educational psychology, informatics and applied information technology.

Sten Ludvigsen, Andreas Lund, Ingvill Rasmussen, Roger Säljö

1. Introduction. Learning across sites; new tools, infrastructures and practices Sten Ludvigsen, Andreas Lund, Ingvill Rasmussen, Roger Säljö Part 1: Developing professional expertise 2. Learning how to know who: Professional learning for expansive practice between organizations Anne Edwards 3. Co-configurational design of learning instrumentalities: An activity-theoretical perspective Yrjö Engeström, Hanna Toiviainen 4. Professional learning as epistemic trajectories Leif Christian Lahn 5. Cultivating collective expertise within innovative knowledge-practice networks Kai Hakkarainen, Jiri Lallimo, Seppo Toikka, Hal White 6. A new artefact in the trade: Notes on the arrival of a computer supported manufacturing system in a technical school Anne- Nelly Perret-Clermont, Jean-Francois Perret Part 2: Unpacking collaboration and trajectories of participation 7. Intersecting trajectories of participation; Temporality and learning Sten Ludvigsen, Ingvill Rasmussen, Ingeborg Krange, Anne Moen, David Middleton 8. Noticing the past to manage the future: On the organization of shared knowing in IT-Support practices Ann-Charlotte Eklund, Åsa Mäkitalo, Roger Säljö 9. Design and Use of an Integrated Work and Learning System: Information Seeking as Critical Function Anders I. Mørch, Mari Ann Skaanes 10. Versions of computer supported collaborating in higher education Charles Crook 11. Promoting knowledge creation and object - oriented inquiry in university courses Hanni Muukkonen, Minna Lakkala, Sami Paavola 12. Social practices of group cognition in virtual match teams Gerry Stahl 13. Changing objects in knowledge creation practices Andreas Lund, Trond Eiliv Hauge 14. Socio-cognitive tension in collaborative working relations Jerry Andriessen, Michael Baker, Chiel van der Puil 15. Productive E-feedback in higher education: Two models and some critical issues Olga Dysthe, Sølvi Lillejord, Barbara Wasson, Arne Vines Part 3: Institutional development 16. Breakdowns between teachers, educators and designers in elaborating new technologies as precursors of change in education to dialogic thinking Baruch Schwarz, Reuma de Groot 17. Researching classroom interactions: a methodology for teachers and researchers Sally Barnes, Rosamund Sutherland 18. Weaving the context of digital literacy Ola Erstad Part 4: Design environments and new tools and representations 19. Using Bakhtin to re-think the teaching of higher order thinking for the network society Rupert Wegerif, Maarten De Laat 20. Self-regulation and motivation in computer upported collaborative learning environments Sanna Järvelä, Tarja-Riitta Hurme, Hanna Järvenoja 21. Interactive whiteboards: Does new technology transform teaching? Neil Mercer, Julia Gillen, Judith Kleine Staarman, Karen Littleton, Alison Twiner 22. Differences that make a difference: Contrasting the local enactment of two technologies in a kinematics lab Oskar Lindwall, Jonas Ivarsson