Learning Platforms and Learning Outcomes

Don Passey, Steve Higgins

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2016
• ISBN:
  9781134912964
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Education General

This book provides contemporary insights into learning outcomes arising from the use of learning platforms by pupils, students and teachers in schools. Most current research focuses on the implementation of learning platforms, and the ways in which practices are developing over time, or in specific contexts. This collection offers a range of contrasting but complementary perspectives in this area, including an exploration of applications supporting management of learning across primary and secondary schools in the UK, an in-depth case study of uses and outcomes in a school in Singapore, an analysis of learning outcomes arising across primary, special and secondary schools in one local authority in the UK, and a look at student preferences for using a learning platform in a school in Taiwan.

The volume sheds important light on the subject, but with the ever changing development and introduction of learning platforms, much remains to be explored. Indeed, it is likely that learning platforms will evolve further with affordances and integrated features being added over the next five and more years. This work hints at future practices and their potential outcomes, pointing to the need for greater detail being gathered through future research studies, in order to understand ways teachers and learners might most effectively benefit from more holistic or 'blended' approaches across the applications provided.

This book will not only be of particular interest to those involved in using learning platforms, but also to those advising on, and developing, learning platforms. Key lessons and issues are of relevance to policy makers, school managers and teachers, educational advisers, researchers and developers.

This book was originally published as a special issue of Learning, Media and Technology.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Citation Information
• Notes on Contributors
• Introduction: Learning platforms and learning outcomes – insights from research
• 1. The use of learning platforms to organise learning in English primary and secondary schools
• 2. Open-source learning management system and Web 2.0 online social software applications as learning platforms for an elementary school in Singapore
• 3. Implementing learning platforms into schools: an architecture for wider involvement in learning
• 4. Exploring the relationship between virtual learning environment preference, use, and learning outcomes in 10th grade earth science students
• 5. The effect of information literacy on physical education students’ perception of a course management system
• 6. College students’ conceptions of learning management: the difference between traditional (face-to-face) instruction and Web-based learning environments
• Index