Deep Learning for a Digital Age: Technology's Untapped Potential to Enrich Higher Education

Deep Learning for a Digital Age outlines a new paradigm for using technology to bring depth and dimensionality to the classroom. In this important book, Van B. Weigel introduces his "depth education" model that blends classroom-based education with e-learning to enrich higher education. Deep Learning for a Digital Age

• Introduces a workgroup approach to the classroom that uses virtual teams to build skills in critical thinking and knowledge management
• Offers a strategic assessment of the opportunities and challenges associated with the broadband virtual classroom
• Outlines the campus infrastructure requirements of depth education
• Describes the educational vistas made possible by e-learning
• Explains how to implement the knowledge room framework of depth education

Rather than focus on technology to extend the reach of higher education—distance learning—Weigel favors its use in conjunction with classroom-based experiences to promote "depth education"—the use of collaborative virtual spaces, called "knowledge rooms," in which virtual teams of students work together to build skills in critical thinking and knowledge management. Weigel explains the concept of depth education, outlines the campus infrastructure requirements of depth education, explains how to use the knowledge room framework, and discusses educational vistas made possible by e- learning. The author teaches ethics and economic development at Eastern College in St. David's, Pennsylvania.

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Van B. Weigel is professor of ethics and economic development at Eastern College in St. Davids, Pennsylvania. He is author of a Choice Outstanding Academic Book, A Unified Theory of Global Development and Earth Cancer.