Networked Professional Learning: Emerging and Equitable Discourses for Professional Development

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Over the past decades a new form of professionalism has emerged, characterized by factors of fluidity, instability and continual change, leading to the necessitation of new forms of professional development that support agile and flexible expansion of professional practice. At the same time, the digitization of work has had a profound effect on professional practice. This digitization opens up opportunities for new forms of professional learning mediated by technologies through networked learning. Networked learning is believed to lead to a more efficient flow of complex knowledge and routine information within the organization, stimulate innovative behaviour, and result in a higher job satisfaction. In this respect, networked learning can be perceived as an important perspective on both professional and organizational development. This volume provides examples of Networked Professional Learning, it questions the impact of this emerging form of learning on the academy, and it interrogates the impact on teachers of the future. It features three sections that explore networked professional learning from different perspectives: questioning what legitimate forms of networked professional learning are across a broad sampling of professions, how new forms of professional learning impact institutions of higher education, and the value creation that Networked Learning offers professionals in broader educational, economic, and social contexts. The book is of interest to researchers in the area of professional and digital learning, higher education managers, organizational HR professionals, policy makers and students of technology enhanced learning. Front Matter ....Pages i-xx Networked Professional Learning: An Introduction (Allison Littlejohn, Jimmy Jaldemark, Emmy Vrieling-Teunter, Femke Nijland)....Pages 1-11 Front Matter ....Pages 13-13 Professional Learning in Open Networks: How Midwives Self-Regulate their Learning in Massive Open Online Courses (Annette Dalsgaard, Vasudha Chaudhari, Allison Littlejohn)....Pages 15-36 New Educational Formats for Professional Development: Accommodating the Invisible Learners (Christian Dalsgaard, Tom Gislev)....Pages 37-54 Communities of Inquiry in Crisis Management Exercises (Lena-Maria Öberg, Christina Amcoff Nyström, Allison Littlejohn, Emmy Vrieling-Teunter)....Pages 55-68 Front Matter ....Pages 69-69 Networked Learning in, for, and with the World (Rikke Toft Nørgård, Yishay Mor, Søren S. E. Bengtsen)....Pages 71-88 Learning in Hybrid Protopublic Spaces: Framework and Exemplars (Alex Young Pedersen, Francesco Caviglia, Tom Gislev, Anders Hjortskov Larsen)....Pages 89-110 Designs for Learning as Springboards for Professional Development in Higher Education (Ulla Konnerup, Thomas Ryberg, Mia Thyrre Sørensen)....Pages 111-127 Design Principles for Professional Networked Learning in ‘Learning Through Practice’ Designs (Jens Jørgen Hansen, Nina Bonderup Dohn)....Pages 129-146 Teachers’ Beliefs About Professional Development: Supporting Emerging Networked Practices in Higher Education (Jimmy Jaldemark, Marcia Håkansson Lindqvist, Peter Mozelius)....Pages 147-164 Front Matter ....Pages 165-165 Learning to Teach in a Remote School Context: Exploring the Organisation of Teachers’ Professional Development of Digital Competence Through Networked Learning (Fanny Pettersson, Anders D. Olofsson)....Pages 167-185 Value Creation in Teacher Learning Networks (Daniël van Amersfoort, Monique Korenhof, Femke Nijland, Maarten de Laat, Marjan Vermeulen)....Pages 187-205 Analysing Social Learning of Teacher-Learning Groups That Aim at Knowledge Creation (Emmy Vrieling-Teunter, Iwan Wopereis, Antoine van den Beemt, Maarten de Laat, Saskia Brand-Gruwel)....Pages 207-222 MakerSpaces in Schools: Networked Learning Among Teachers to Support Curriculum-Driven Pupil Learning in Programming (Maria Spante, Kristina Johansson, Jimmy Jaldemark)....Pages 223-237 Networked Professional Learning, Design Research and Social Innovation (Peter Goodyear)....Pages 239-256 Back Matter ....Pages 257-264