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Whenever we talk about ‘new’ learning the old question arises “Is there really anything new?”. The discussants in the focus group agreed that what is new is the rapidly changing context in which today’s learners live, work and learn and the social condition that change is now a constant in our lives. These social, economic and technological changes, and the condition of constant change challenge us to re-evaluate, re-engineer and where necessary create new purposes and processes for learning.
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Squires, D. (2001). Focus Group 1 — New learning in new contexts. In: Taylor, H., Hogenbirk, P. (eds) Information and Communication Technologies in Education. IFIP — The International Federation for Information Processing, vol 58. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-35403-3_25
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