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<article lang="en"><title>Emergence and Innovation in Digital Learning: Foundations and Applications</title><articleinfo><authorblurb><para role="Verfasser">Editor: George Veletsianos </para></authorblurb><authorgroup><author><firstname>George (Ed.)</firstname><surname>Veletsianos</surname></author></authorgroup><biblioid class="uri">urn:nbn:de:0009-5-44061</biblioid><keywordset><keyword>MOOC</keyword><keyword>distance education</keyword><keyword>e-learning</keyword><keyword>online course</keyword></keywordset><subjectset scheme="pacs"><subject>multimedia</subject><subject>education and training IT applications</subject><subject>education and training</subject></subjectset><subjectset scheme="ddc"><subject>learning</subject><subject>electronic distance education</subject></subjectset><legalnotice><title>Licence</title><para>Any party may pass on this Work by electronic means and make it available for download under the terms and conditions of the free Digital Peer Publishing Licence. The text of the licence may be accessed and retrieved via Internet at http://www.dipp.nrw.de/lizenzen/dppl/fdppl/f-DPPL_v1_de_11-2004.html</para></legalnotice><volumenum>12</volumenum><issuenum>1</issuenum><biblioset relation="journal"><issn>1860-7470</issn><title>e-learning and education</title></biblioset></articleinfo><section><title /><para role="caption"><inlinemediaobject><imageobject><imagedata width="70.56mm" depth="104.08mm" fileref="dippArticle-1.png" format="PNG" srccredit="embed" /></imageobject></inlinemediaobject></para><para>AU Press, Athabasca, Canada, 2016</para><para>ISBN: 9781771991490 (Paperback), 9781771991506 (PDF), 9781771991513 (epub)</para><para>URL: <ulink url="http://aupress.ca/index.php/books/120258"><phrase role="Hyperlink">http://aupress.ca/index.php/books/120258</phrase></ulink> </para><para>doi:10.15215/aupress/9781771991490.01</para></section><section><title>About the Book</title><para>Educational systems worldwide are facing an enormous shift as a result of sociocultural, political, economic, and technological changes. The technologies and practices that have developed over the last decade have been heralded as opportunities to transform both online and traditional education systems. While proponents of these new ideas often postulate that they have the potential to address the educational problems facing both students and institutions and that they could provide an opportunity to rethink the ways that education is organized and enacted, there is little evidence of emerging technologies and practices in use in online education. Because researchers and practitioners interested in these possibilities often reside in various disciplines and academic departments the sharing and dissemination of their work across often rigid boundaries is a formidable task.</para><para>Contributors to Emergence and Innovation in Digital Learning include individuals who are shaping the future of online learning with their innovative applications and investigations on the impact of issues such as openness, analytics, MOOCs, and social media. Building on work first published in Emerging Technologies in Distance Education, the contributors to this collection harness the dispersed knowledge in online education to provide a one-stop locale for work on emergent approaches in the field. Their conclusions will influence the adoption and success of these approaches to education and will enable researchers and practitioners to conceptualize, critique, and enhance their understanding of the foundations and applications of new technologies.</para></section><section><title> About the Editor</title><para>George Veletsianos is an associate professor at Royal Roads University and holds a Canada Research Chair in Innovative Learning and Technology. His research is dedicated to understanding the practices and experiences of learners, educators, and scholars in emerging online settings. His presentations, publications, and most recent thoughts on education can be found at www.veletsianos.com.</para></section><section><title> Contributors</title><para>Terry Anderson, R. S. Baker, Angela D. Benson, Amy Collier, Alec Couros, Michael Dowdy, Margaret Edwards, B. J. Eib, Cassidy Hall, Katia Hildebrandt, P. S. Inventado, Royce Kimmons, Trey Martindale, Rolin Moe, Beth Perry, Jen Ross, Elizabeth Wellburn, Andrew Whitworth.</para></section></article>