Information, knowledge and learning: some issues facing epistemology and education in a digital age / Colin Lankshear, Michael Peters and Michele Knobel -- Informed opportunism: teaching for learning in uncertain contexts of distributed education / Wendy Morgan, Annel, Russell and Michael Ryan -- Legitimate peripheral participation in communities of practice / Jean Lave and Etienne Wenger -- Looking beyond the interface: activity theory and distributed learning / David R. Russell -- Workplaces, communities and pedagogy: an activity theory view / Stephen Billett -- Distribution and interconnectedness: the globalisation of education / Richard Edwards -- English language and 'global' teaching / Barbara Mayor and Joan Swann -- From independent learning to collaborative learning: new communities of practice in open, distance and distributed learning / Mary Thorpe -- Learning as cultural practice / Charles Crook -- University campus as a 'resourceful constraint': process and practice in the construction of the virtual university / James Cornford and Neil Pollock -- Identity, community and distributed learning / Gill kirkup -- Flexible literacies: distributed learning learning and changing educational spaces / Richard Edwards, Kathy Nicoll and Alison Lee

1. Distance education -- Social aspects
2. Open learning -- Social aspects
3. Information technology -- Social aspects