TY - GEN AU - MCAvinia, Claire TI - Online Learning and its Users Lessons for Higher Education SN - 9780081006269 PY - 2016/// CY - United States of America PB - Chandos Publishing KW - Challenges and Disappointments KW - Activity Theory KW - E- Learning Management N1 - Externalisation; 3.3.3 Activities Are Object-Oriented and Lead to an Outcome; 3.3.4 Activities Are Mediated and There Are Mediating Artefacts; 3.3.5 Activities Have Rules and a Division of Labour; 3.3.6 Rules; 3.3.7 Division of Labour; 3.3.8 Operations and Actions Contribute to Activities; 3.3.9 Contradictions in Activity Systems; 3.3.10 Activities Are Constantly Changing; 3.3.11 Activity Theory: Limitations and Strengths; 3.3.12 Issues in Modelling Activity Systems; 3.3.13 Individual and Collective Activities. 3.3.14 Limited Scope to Take Account of Cultural Diversity3.3.15 Activity Theory Does Not Have an Explicit Methodology; 3.3.16 Strengths of Activity Theory;1 Activity Theory and Technology; 3.4.2 Activity Theory and Educational Change; 3.4.3 Activity Theory and Online Learning: Some Examples From Research; 3.5 .1 Rationale for Using Activity Theory.2 Operationalising Activity Theory in This Study ER -