Networks and learning: communities, practices and the metaphor of networks—a commentary
Abstract
In issue 12(1), Jones (2004) in his article ‘Networks and learning: communities, practices and the metaphor of networks’ sets out to address three inter-related sets of issues: … firstly that learning technology needs to take account of the wider debate about networks and secondly that research in this field needs to address the theoretical and practical issues raised by advances in the field of networks. A third point is that the idea of the network acts as a powerful metaphor even if we are able to discount any particular theory generated in its support. The network metaphor can act as a unifying concept allowing us to bring together apparently disparate elements of the field.
DOI: 10.1080/0968776042000216237
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