Learning with technology is seen by many countries as a way of improving their collective human ‘capital’, and of offering opportunities to those currently excluded from mainstream education. But in reality how do adults learn to use, and learn by using, information and communications technologies (ICTs) such as the computer, the internet and digital television? To what extent are we witnessing a technology-based learning revolution? This illuminating and engaging book provides hard facts on a topic that is all too often clouded by rhetoric as it describes the different ways in which adults interact with ICTs for learning at home, work and in the wider community. Written by acknowledged experts in the field, the valuable research findings will spark fresh debate on: • Why ICTs are believed capable of effecting positive change in adult learning • The drawbacks and limits of ICT in adult education • How people can be made into lifelong learners • What people use ICT for in the home, work and community • The wider social, economic, cultural and political realities of the information age and the learning society. Adult Learning in the Digital Age is based on one of the first large-scale academic research projects in the area. Its rich and detailed findings are used to generate practical recommendations for policy-makers, practitioners and future researchers interested in the use of new technology and the development of the information society.