Networked Learning: The centrality of human-to-human networks in online learning environments.  A book review of: Themelis, C. (2023) Pedagogy of Tele-Proximity for eLearning: Bridging the Distance with Social Physics (New York: Routledge)

Gary Frazer Fisher

doi:10.47408/jldhe.vi27.1023

Networked Learning: The centrality of human-to-human networks in online learning environments. A book review of: Themelis, C. (2023) Pedagogy of Tele-Proximity for eLearning: Bridging the Distance with Social Physics (New York: Routledge)

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Gary Frazer Fisher University of Derby

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https://doi.org/10.47408/jldhe.vi27.1023

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online learning, classical education, educational technology, scholarship of teaching and learning

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Gary Frazer Fisher, University of Derby

Gary F. Fisher is the University of Derby’s Senior Learning Designer, where he manages a team of teaching and learning specialists who work to improve the quality of education offered across the university. Prior to this, he has worked and taught in a variety of Further, Higher, Rehabilitative, and Heritage Education contexts. He completed his doctorate in classics at the University of Nottingham in 2020 and actively researches and publishes on a variety of subjects, ranging from the history of classical education to blended learning and the philosophy of educational technology in modern higher and further education.

References

Sime, J.-A. & Themelis, C. (2020) 'Educators' perspectives on transmedia identity management: Redefining tele-teacher presence', Distance Education, vol. 41, no. 1, pp. 70-85. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/01587919.2020.1727292

Themelis, C. (2013) 'Tele-proximity: the experienced educators’ perspective of human to human communication in distance education', PhD, Lancaster University, Lancaster.

Themelis, C. & Bougia, A. (2016) 'Tele-proximity: Tele-community of Inquiry Model. Facial Cues for Social, Cognitive, and Teacher Presence in Distance Education', The International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, vol. 17, no. 6, pp. 145-163. Available at: https://doi.org/10.19173/irrodl.v17i6.2453

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27-04-2023

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Fisher, G. F. (2023) “Networked Learning: The centrality of human-to-human networks in online learning environments. A book review of: Themelis, C. (2023) Pedagogy of Tele-Proximity for eLearning: Bridging the Distance with Social Physics (New York: Routledge)”, Journal of Learning Development in Higher Education, (27). doi: 10.47408/jldhe.vi27.1023.

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