Chapter 1

Introduction

The principal themes of the book are introduced and the productive relationship between innovation, technology and pedagogy is discussed. The introductory chapter, in addition to explaining the argument which runs through the whole book, will also provide an account of the book’s contents.

Keywords

Education; Digital Technologies; Independent Learning; Innovation; Methodology; Sustainability

The future is not something that will happen, the future is what is happening now

(Gary Hamel and C.K. Prahalad, 1994)

Our principal concern in this book is to understand three important ideas: learning, technology and innovation, and to examine these ideas and the relationships between them in situ; that is, we examine a number of cases ...

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