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Reflections and Challenges in Networked Learning

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In this last chapter, we reflect on the issues taken up in the nine chapters forming the body of the book and how they relate to the trends identified in the introductory chapter as well as how they combine to characterize the field of Networked Learning today and on from here. We start with a short presentation of each of the chapters. This leads us to identify broader themes which point out significant perspectives and challenges for future research and practice. Among these are social justice, criticality, mobility, new forms of openness and learning in the public arena (all leading themes at the next Networked Learning Conference in 2018), differences between participants and in participant experiences, learning analytics and different understandings of Networked Learning.

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    Nina Bonderup Dohn

  2. Educational Research, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK

    Julie-Ann Sime & Sue Cranmer

  3. Department of Communication and Psychology, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark

    Thomas Ryberg

  4. Learning, Teaching & Curriculum, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW, Australia

    Maarten de Laat

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Dohn, N.B., Sime, JA., Cranmer, S., Ryberg, T., de Laat, M. (2018). Reflections and Challenges in Networked Learning. In: Bonderup Dohn, N., Cranmer, S., Sime, JA., de Laat, M., Ryberg, T. (eds) Networked Learning. Research in Networked Learning. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74857-3_11

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