Adult Learning in the Digital Age

<p>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:</p><ul> <li>why ICTs are believed to be capable of affecting positive change in adult learning</li> <li>the drawbacks and limits of ICT in adult education</li> <li>what makes a lifelong learner </li> <li>the wider social economic cultural and political realities of the information age and the learning society.</li> </ul><p><em>Adult Learning</em> 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. </p>