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Virtual terrorism and the internet e-learning options

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posted on 2023-05-25, 23:15 authored by Cole, DR
E-learning on the Internet is constituted by the options that this global technology gives the user. This article explores these options in terms of the lifestyle choices and decisions that the learner will make about the virtual worlds, textual meanings and cultural groupings that they will find as they learn online. This is a non-linear process that complicates dualistic approaches to e-learning, such as those which propose real/virtual distinctions. It also sets up the notion of virtual terrorism, which is explained in terms of the political forces that have come about due to e-learning. This article uses the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze as a best fit in order to understand the ways in which the e-learning of the Internet options is apparent in contemporary society. Deleuze made a division between unconscious learning and apprenticeship learning, that makes sense in terms of the virtual and cultural worlds that inform the lifestyle choices on the Net. This is because the navigation of virtual worlds involves imaginative processes that are at the same time an education of the sense of the type that the apprentice will receive. Furthermore, in his work with Felix Guattari, he developed the notion of the plane of immanence, which is used to pinpoint the presence of virtual terrorism in e-learning practices.

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Publication title

E-Learning

Volume

4

Article number

2

Number

2

Pagination

116-127

ISSN

1741-8887

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  • Published

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Copyright 2007 Symposium Journals. http://www.wwwords.co.uk/elea/

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