Digital education: opportunities for social collaboration

"This timely collection of theoretical and applied studies examines the pedagogical potential and realities of digital technologies in a wide range of disciplinary contexts across the educational spectrum. By mixing content-based chapters with a theoretical perspective with case studies detailing actual teaching approaches utilizing digital technologies in the classroom or on campus, this work provides a valuable resource for teacher trainers, academic researchers, administrators, and students interested in interdisciplinary studies of education and learning technologies from around the world"--

Ch. 1. Digital education : opportunities, challenges, and responsibilities / Michael Thomas -- Part I. Theoretical perspectives -- ch. 2. Modified, multiplied, and (re-)mixed : social media and digital literacies / Mark Pegrum -- ch. 3. Research on web 2.0 digital technologies in education / Chaka Chaka -- ch. 4. The role of adult educators in the age of social media / Rita Kop and Paul Bouchard -- ch. 5. Educational networking in the digital age / Cristina Costa -- ch. 6. Integrating digital technologies in education : a model for negotiating change and resistance to change / Thomas Berger and Michael Thomas -- Part II. Applying digital education -- ch. 7. Virtual learning environments : personalizing learning or managing learners? / Philip Banyard . . . [et al.] -- ch. 8. Teaching Spanish in second life / Dafne González, Cristina Palomeque, and Paul Sweeney -- ch. 9. "The wisdom of practice" : web 2.0 as a cognitive and community-building tool in Indonesia / Mary Burns and Petra Wiyakti Bodrogini -- ch. 10. Teaching research methods with social media / Kelly S. Burns -- ch. 11. Deconstructing formal and informal learning spaces with social networking sites / Joannah Portman Dale…