Analysis of Fragmented Learning Features under the New Media Environment

Abstract

Now is the new media era, smart phones, tablets, laptops and other kinds of media constantly appear in learners' learning activities. Depending on the internal intervention and external support of new media technology, a new learning style – fragmented learning emerges at the right moment. Beginning with the definition of new media and fragmented learning, this article points out that with the fragmentation of time and space, media and information produce distributed learning behavior, which is apt to form thought fragments. Meanwhile, scattered thinking model is easy to produce distributed learning behavior. One is mutually affected and promoted by the other one. New media meets the general condition of fragmented learning for learners, from what ever perspective including time and space, media and information, thinking and behavior, etc., fragmented learning shows different features from traditional collective learning. The new media is a double-edged sword for learners' learning activities, so we must fully grasp the features of new media and fragmented learning, in order to improve the quality and efficiency of learning for learners.