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Creative Re-instrumentation of Collective Learning Activity

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New Horizons in Web Based Learning (ICWL 2012)

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The implementation of networked, digital media applications in formal higher education provides opportunities for supporting and re-instrumenting various conversational and productive actions of creative collaboration. Successful re-instrumentation of collective learning activity depends to a large degree on the construction of viable, distributed environments of instruments and resources and a compatible perception of the potentials for actions (affordances) within its boundaries. This paper discusses some selected examples from an intervention study in higher education that focused on the self-directed re-instrumentation of collective learning activity and the formation and development of distributed learning environments.

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  1. Centre for Educational Technology, Tallinn University, Tallinn, Estonia

    Terje Väljataga & Sebastian H. D. Fiedler

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Väljataga, T., Fiedler, S.H.D. (2014). Creative Re-instrumentation of Collective Learning Activity. In: Chiu, D.K.W., Wang, M., Popescu, E., Li, Q., Lau, R. (eds) New Horizons in Web Based Learning. ICWL 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7697. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-43454-3_31

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