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table of contents
  1. Cover
  2. Acknowledgements
  3. Prologue
  4. Introduction
  5. Preamble: Elephant Spotting
    1. 1. A Handful of Anecdotes about Elephants
    2. 2. A Handful of Observations about Elephants
  6. Part I: All about Technology
    1. 3. Organizing Stuff to Do Stuff
    2. 4. How Technologies Work
    3. 5. Participation and Technique
  7. Part II: Education as a Technological Phenomenon
    1. 6. A Co-Participation Model of Teaching
    2. 7. Theories of Teaching
    3. 8. Technique, Expertise, and Literacy
  8. Part III: Applying the Co-Participation Model
    1. 9. Revealing Elephants
    2. 10. How Education Works
  9. Epilogue
  10. References

Copyright © 2023 Jon Dron

Published by AU Press, Athabasca University

1 University Drive, Athabasca, AB T9S 3A3

https://doi.org/10.15215/aupress/9781771993838.01

Cover design by Sergiy Kozakov

Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

Title: How education works : teaching, technology, and technique / Jon Dron.

Names: Dron, Jon, 1961– author.

Series: Issues in distance education series.

Description: Series statement: Issues in distance education | Includes bibliographical references.

Identifiers: Canadiana (print) 20230438857 | Canadiana (ebook) 20230438865 | ISBN 9781771993838 (softcover) | ISBN 9781771993845 (PDF) | ISBN 9781771993852 (EPUB)

Subjects: LCSH: Educational innovations. | LCSH: Educational technology.

Classification: LCC LB1027 .D76 2023 | DDC 371.33—dc23

Image sources for part openers

Preamble. Photograph by Sam Hood, 24 March 1939, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, https://archival.sl.nsw.gov.au/Details/archive/110016958.

Part 1. Clinton Folger’s “Horsemobile” delivering mail, on South Beach Street, at Hayden’s Bath House entrance, n.d., Nantucket Historical Association Library, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Horse_drawn_US_Mail_car.jpg.

Part 2. Cartoon by Jean Marc Cote, 1901, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:France_in_XXI_Century._School.jpg.

Part 3. Photograph by Sam Hood, 24 March 1939, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, https://archival.sl.nsw.gov.au/Details/archive/110016951.

Epilogue. Photograph by Ken Thomas, 2001, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:John_Henry-27527.jpg.

We acknowledge the financial support of the Government of Canada through the Canada Book Fund (CBF) for our publishing activities and the assistance provided by the Government of Alberta through the Alberta Media Fund.

Logo: Government of Canada. Logo: Government of Alberta.

This publication is licensed under a Creative Commons licence, Attribution–Noncommercial–No Derivative Works 4.0 International: see www.creativecommons.org. The text may be reproduced for non-commercial purposes, provided that credit is given to the original author. To obtain permission for uses beyond those outlined in the Creative Commons licence, please contact AU Press, Athabasca University, at aupress@athabascau.ca.

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