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Educational institutions are ever-changing due to the recent adoption of technology into current educational practices. The application of digital technology into education has propelled this field significantly, as researchers attempt to keep pace with the vast array of technologically-induced learning methods that are being implemented. As education keeps transforming, it would be highly beneficial for instructors and administrators to have a compilation of research that helps predict where digital education is going. Digital Learning: Architectures of Participation provides emerging research exploring the theoretical and practical aspects of current distance learning models as well as future methods of digital technology adoption within education. This book analyzes specific cases of digital learning models and works to establish future directions of e-learning adoption in institutions worldwide. Featuring coverage on a broad range of topics such as community development, digital practitioners, and educational policy, this book is ideally designed for researchers, administrators, practitioners, instructors, policymakers, theorists, analysts, academicians, and students seeking current research on the future of digital education.

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Nigel Ecclesfield was JISC Advance Programme Manager for the FE and Skills Development and Resources Programme supporting project work to develop innovative uses of technology throughout the UK. Nigel has been engaged in post-compulsory education since 1978 and educational research since 1985 working for national agencies, European projects, and higher education institutions. Nigel worked in FE colleges in various practitioner and management roles and became an inspector of Work-based and Community Learning. Previously at Becta where he worked on a range of national technology projects and surveys. He is interested in the influence of organizations on practitioner uses of technology, learner-centric education, teacher education, and open scholarship. Fred Garnett has been working with adult vocational education teaching since 1982, initially with Lewisham College where he became Community Projects Officer. As part of TaLENT he helped create a Community Grid for Learning and helped set up the Creekside Environmental Education trust. As Head of Community Programmes at Becta he lead on community eLearning as part of the £250m Community Access to Lifelong Learning (CALL) initiative reporting to the DfES, DCMS and the Cabinet Office. Since leaving Becta he has been a Visiting Research Fellow at the London Knowledge Lab, where he leads on Digital Literacy and set up the Ambient Learning City & WikiQuals projects.

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