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The New Normal: Innovative Informal Digital Learning After the Pandemic

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ICT Innovations 2022. Reshaping the Future Towards a New Normal (ICT Innovations 2022)

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The global pandemic catalysed a large-scale shift across many sectors of education towards digital learning. This was motivated by the need to preserve the ongoing delivery of education. Consequently, it was conservative rather than innovative, reinforcing existing face-to-face pedagogies rather than challenging them, and only benefitting learners actually within the sectors of education, further increasing the disadvantage of those not in the education sectors. This chapter outlines some innovative informal digital learning pedagogies that could be freely exploited to contribute to a more equitable ‘new normal’.

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Traxler, J. (2022). The New Normal: Innovative Informal Digital Learning After the Pandemic. In: Zdravkova, K., Basnarkov, L. (eds) ICT Innovations 2022. Reshaping the Future Towards a New Normal. ICT Innovations 2022. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1740. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-22792-9_1

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