VIRTUALITIES, HYPERREALITIES & DIGITAL LEARNING

PAPER SUBMITTED TO HBMeU e-LEARNING FORUM 2010

The paper adopts a postmodern spatial theoretical perspective on the structure and organization of information and production of knowledge in digital and electronic communication environments. It challenges the validity and credibility of information and knowledge is such environments and calls for a radical reconsideration of their definition within the context of global electronic communication and information communication technologies. The issues of virtuality and hyperreality are discussed in the context of digital learning. The paper calls for fresh thinking alternatives and suggests an in-depth analysis and a framing of the organization of information systems which leads to a proposal of a theoretical framework of how information, knowledge and the process of learning can be understood within and with information communication technologies.

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