Adult Learning in the Digital Age : Information Technology and the Learning Society Paperback / softback

This engaging book sheds light on the ways in which adults in the twenty-first century interact with technology in different learning environments.

Based on one of the first large-scale academic research projects in this area, the authors present their findings and offer practical recommendations for the use of new technology in a learning society.

They invite debate on:why ICTs are believed to be capable of affecting positive change in adult learningthe drawbacks and limits of ICT in adult educationwhat makes a lifelong learner the wider social, economic, cultural and political realities of the information age and the learning society. Adult Learning addresses key questions and provides a sound empirical foundation to the existing debate, highlighting the complex realities of the learning society and e-learning rhetoric.

It tells the story of those who are excluded from the learning society, and offers a set of strong recommendations for practitioners, policy-makers, and politicians, as well as researchers and students.