Visual Meaning Management for Networked Learning

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Author(s): Margaret Turner (University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia)
Copyright: 2009
Pages: 20
Source title: Handbook of Research on Learning Design and Learning Objects: Issues, Applications, and Technologies
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Lori Lockyer (University of Wollongong, Australia), Sue Bennett (University of Wollongong, Australia), Shirley Agostinho (University of Wollongong, Australia)and Barry Harper (University of Wollongong, Australia)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-861-1.ch020

Keywords: Education / Educational Technologies / Information Science Reference / Instructional Design

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This chapter introduces an approach to writing content for online learning over networked media. It argues that few resources currently utilise the fluid and multivoiced capacity of the Internet’s networked nodal structure to provide multiple pathways through content, opportunities for independent research and reflection, or collaboration with peers in knowledge building. ‘Learning objects’ are one way to conceptualise content ideas and learning activities within this flexible environment. To effectively use this resource requires something quite different to traditional sequential writing. A more appropriate approach is to use nonlinear software that can map the nodes of the knowledge domain and make visible the internal relationships, connections, and paths of meaning. The purpose of this chapter is to provide the reader with a guide to developing a better understanding of how meaning is managed visually and proposes tools and strategies for a new structure of writing for networked media.

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