• 1. Information, Knowledge and Learning: Some Issues Facing Epistemology and Education in a Digital Age 2. Informed Opportunism: teaching for Learning in Uncertain Contexts of Distributed Education 3. Legitimate Peripheral Participation in Communities of Practice 4. Looking Beyond the Interface: Activity Theory and Distributed Learning 5. Workplaces, Communities and Pedagogy: An Activity Theory View 6. Distribution and Interconnectedness: the Globalisation of Education 7. The English Language and 'Global' Teaching 8. From Independent Learning to Collaborative Learning: New Communities of Practice in Open, Distance and Distributed Learning 9. Learning as Cultural Practice 10. The University Campus as a 'Resourceful Constraint': Process and Practice in the Construction of the Virtual University 11. Identity, Community and Distributed Learning 12. Flexible Literacies: Distributed Learning and Changing Educational Spaces

'This is a high quality, leading edge volume which seeks not only to explore social and cultural aspects of distributed learning but also to 'push the enevlope' of established methods of enquiry into open and distance educational theory.' - Carolyn Richardson, British Journal of Educational Technology'This is a rich resource for teachers in a range of settings. Those of us working as teacher educators will find it extremely useful as a way of engaging our practitioner-students with the problematic issue of the relationship between learning and technology and challenging assumptions about the utility of ICT as a teaching tool ... The contributions offer an empowering indication of how we can better understand, and thus take a more active role in shaping, "distibuted learning" for the future.' - Janice Malcolm, Teaching in Higher Education