E-tivities, 2nd Edition

Preface to the second edition

This revision of E-tivities comes 10 years after its first publication in 2002. So much has happened in that period: thousands of e-tivities have been planned, executed and experienced by the growing worldwide army of online designers, learning technologists, e-moderators, researchers, commentators—and, of course, online learners.

Today, new learners, young, old and in between, are connected at the speed of light. Every individual is a node on a learning network. We can call them the Quantum Generation: they are making a quantum leap into an increasingly complex digital world. Most importantly, we finally need to acknowledge that we are not trying to replicate the class or lecture room ‘learning’ experience of ...