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New Learning Environments for the 21st Century: Exploring the Edge
John Seely Brown
Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning Vol. 38, No. 5 (2006) pp. 18–24
Today's students are comfortable satisfying their immense curiosity on their own. This capacity for independent learning is essential to their future well-being, since they are likely to have multiple careers and will need to continually learn new...
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The Social Life of Learning: How Can Continuing Education Be Reconfigured in the Future?
John Seely Brown
Continuing Higher Education Review Vol. 66 (2002) pp. 50–69
Technology is driving much of education, but learning is socially constructed. Learning, including electronic forms, should be designed to create a social learning environment. This can help bridge the divide between the "analog" professor and the ...
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Process versus Product: A Perspective on Tools for Communal and Informal Electronic Learning
John Seely Brown
Journal of Educational Computing Research Vol. 1, No. 2 (1985) pp. 179–201
Exploration of concepts crucial to development of new computer-based learning environments focuses on process rather than product and the computer's ability to record, represent, and communicate the underlying process. Cognitive, pedagogical, and...
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Universities in the Digital Age
John Seely Brown; Paul Duguid
Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning Vol. 28, No. 4 (1996) pp. 10–19
Radical changes occurring in the university's environment, from reconstitution of the student body to reengineering of the technological infrastructure, will require very different institutional arrangements. Distance education will not bring enough ...
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Limits to Information
John Seely Brown; Paul Duguid
EDUCAUSE Review Vol. 35, No. 6 (2000) pp. 74–89
The authors examine some of the conceptions around the information age they refer to as 6-D vision: demassification, decentralization, denationalization, despacialization, disintermediation and disaggregation. These conceptions tend to oversimplify...
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Stolen Knowledge
John Seely Brown; Paul Duguid
Educational Technology Vol. 33, No. 3 (1993) pp. 10–15
Discusses situated learning in the workplace and in the classroom. Topics addressed include operationalization versus legitimization of educational theories; instruction versus learning; explicit versus implicit instruction and knowledge; individual ...