How Education Works: Teaching, Technology, and Technique

By Jon Dron

An engaging proposal for a new theory of education, diagraming how humans and technology can maximize learning for students.

In this absorbing volume, Jon Dron views education, learning, and teaching through a technological lens. Focusing on the parts we play in technologies--from language and pedagogies to computers and regulations--Dron posits that individuals are not just users but technical coparticipants.

Dron reframes popular families of educational theory and explains a variety of educational phenomena, including the failure of learning style theories, literacies, the prevalence of cheating, and the fundamental differences between online and in-person learning. Ultimately, How Education Works articulates how practitioners in education can usefully understand technology, education, and their relationship to improve teaching practice.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1771993839
• ISBN13: 9781771993838
• Release Date: August 2023
• Publisher: Athabasca University Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"