Learning Across Sites: New Tools, Infrastructures and Practices

The ever evolving, technology-intensive nature of the twenty-first century workplace has caused an acceleration in the division of labour, whereby work practices are becoming highly specialised and learning and the communication of knowledge is in a constant state of flux. This poses a challenge for education and learning: as knowledge and expertise increasingly evolve, how can individuals be prepared through education to participate in specific industries and organisations, both as newcomers and throughout their careers?

Learning Across Sites brings together a diverse range of contributions from leading international researchers to examine the impacts and roles which evolving digital technologies have on our navigation of education and professional work environments. Viewing learning as a socially organised activity, the contributors explore the evolution of learning technologies and knowledge acquisition in networked societies through empirical research in a range of industries and workplaces. The areas of study include public administration, engineering, production, and healthcare and the contributions address the following questions:

• How are learning activities organised?
• How are tools and infrastructures used?
• What competences are needed to participate in specialised activities?
• What counts as knowledge in multiple and diverse settings?
• Where can parallels be drawn between workplaces?

Addressing an emerging problem of adaptation in contemporary education, this book is essential reading for all those undertaking postgraduate study and research in the fields of educational psychology, informatics and applied information technology.

Sten Ludvigsen is Professor at InterMedia, University of Oslo. His research interests focus on how digital learning resources are used and how relationships work in distributed settings, both in education and in the workplace.

Andreas Lund is Associate Professor at the Department of Teacher Education and School Development, University of Oslo. He has experience of teaching in high schools and his research interests include technology-mediated collective thinking and the pedagogical and technological co-design of learning environments.

Ingvill Rasmussen is currently undertaking a post-doctorate position at InterMedia, University of Oslo. Her research interests are learning and change connected to the use of computer technology in educational settings.

Roger Saljo is Professor of Education and Psychology of Education, University of Gothenburg. His research interests include learning, interaction and development in a sociocultural perspective.

With contributions from:-

Jerry Andriessen, Department of Educational Sciences, Research Centre Learning in Interaction, Utrecht University, Netherlands

Michael Baker, CNRS & University Paris X, France

Sally Barnes, Graduate School of Education, University of Bristol, UK

Charles Crook, Learning Sciences Research Institute, School of Education, University of Nottingham, UK

Olga Dysthe, Department of Education, University of Bergen, Norway

Anne Edwards, Department of Education, University of Oxford, UK

Ann-Charlotte Eklund, LinCS, Department of Education, Communication and Learning, University of Gothenburg, Sweden

Yrjo Engestrom, Center for Research on Activity, Development and Learning, University of Helsinki, Finland

Ola Erstad, Institute for educational research, University of Oslo, Norway

Julia Gillen, Literacy Research Centre, Lancaster University, UK

Reuma de Groot, The School of Education, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

Kai Hakkarainen, Center for Research on Activity, Development and Learning, University of Helsinki, Finland

Trond Eiliv Hauge, Department of Teacher Education and School Development, University of Oslo, Norway

Tarja-Riitta Hurme, Department of Educational Sciences and Teacher Education, University of Oulu, Finland

Jonas Ivarson, Department of Education, University of Gothenburg, Sweden

Sanna Jarvela, Department of Educational Sciences and Teacher Education, University of Oulu, Finland

Hanna Jarvenoja, Department of Educational Sciences and Teacher Education, University of Oulu, Finland

Ingeborg Krange, InterMedia, University of Oslo, Norway

Maarten De Laat, Institute of Education, Utrecht University, Netherlands

Leif Christian Lahn, Institute for educational research, University of Oslo, Norway

Jiri Lallimo, Center for Research on Activity, Development and Learning, University of Helsinki, Finland

Minna Lakkala, Institute of Behavioural Sciences, Department of Psychology, University of Helsinki, Finland

Solvi Lillejord, Department of Education, University of Bergen, Norway

Oscar Lindwall, Department of Education, University of Gothenburg, Sweden

Karen Littleton, Centre for Research in Education and Educational Technology, The Open University, UK

Sten Ludvigsen, InterMedia, University of Oslo, Norway

Andreas Lund, InterMedia, University of Oslo, Norway

Asa Makitalo, LinCS, Department of Education, Communication and Learning, University of Gothenburg, Sweden

Neil Mercer, Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge, UK

David Middleton, Loughborough University, UK

Anne Moen, In