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E-book Distributed Learning Ecosystems : Concepts, Resources, and Repositories
For a long time, teaching and learning were understood as activities tied to a particu-lar sense of place. Although various concepts had emerged, such as distance learning, e-learning, blended learning, and online learning, these mainly occurred in academic debates but were widely absent in pedagogical practices in higher education. The incisive developments during the COVID-19 pandemic have made the importance of online learning for education in the digital age evident, and it is unlikely that this wheel will be turned back in the foreseeable future (Brown, 2021). First experiences show, for instance, that online learning can support the development of digital education and the practices of student engagement (Gour-lay etal., 2021) and can lead to an openness towards learning innovation that was not present before the COVID-19 pandemic (Rapanta etal., 2021). However, as the term “online” learning implies, the internet has played and will play a key role in developing and distributing new forms of teaching and learning. What is remarkable from an educational media perspective is that efforts and studies primarily treat the internet as an amorphous space where tools and services can be provided and delivered. Consequently, one rarely encounters the question of how the learning space itself has to be designed on the internet to enable and support different notions of teaching and learning. The authors of this book are convinced that this will be one of the crucial questions of the following decades. From our perspective, the only appropriate answer is that the notion of open education must guide all design approaches for the internet to enable education as a public good (Otto & Kerres, 2021). As proof of concept, this book presents the idea of designing and conveying education on the internet as a mesh of Distrib-uted Learning Ecosystems (DLE). The DLE concept was developed in the research project “Digital Educational Architectures. Open Learning Resources in Distributed Learning Infrastructures” (EduArc), funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) in Germany from 2018?2022. For this undertaking, an interdisciplinary project con-sortium was created, consisting of the University Duisburg-Essen, the University of Oldenburg, the Leibniz Institute for Research and Information in Education in Frankfurt/Main (DIPF), and the Leibniz Information Centre for Economics (ZBW), in order to address the different technical, pedagogical, and organisa-tional aspects.
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