Enhancing Learning And Teaching With Technology

The book brings together researchers, technologists and educators to explore and show how technology can be designed and used for learning and teaching to best effect.

This volume provides an up-to-date study of theory and practice on the importance of technology in teaching and learning. The contributions are carefully peer-reviewed from over 100 submissions to the International Conference on Teaching and Learning 2006, held in Hong Kong. Sample Chapter(s). Chapter 1: Faculty Perceptions of ICT Benefits (391 KB). Contents: Faculty Perceptions of ICT Benefits (R Fox et al.); Thinking about Thinking Online (K Downing et al.); Teacher''s Sharing Pedagogical Experiences in a Learning Environment that Supports Self-Regulated Learning (G Dettori et al.); Online Interaction: Trying to Get It Right (L Chow and R Sharman); Crossing Borders: How Cross-Cultural Videoconferencing can Satisfy Course Goals in Dissimilar Subjects (J S Wilkinson & A-L Wang); The Evaluation of Information and Communication Technology Use in Professional Schools (P Gabor & C Ing); Using Technology in Education: The Application of Data Mining (K H Chye et al.); A Comparison of WebCT, Blackboard and Moddle for the Teaching and Learning of Continuing Education Courses (K S Cheung); The Object-Oriented Database Application and the System Architecture of a National Learning Objects Repository for Cyprus (P Pouyioutas et al.); and other papers. Readership: Graduate students, researchers and practitioners involved in the development and education of e-learning.

Successfully leverage technology to enhance classroom practices with this practical resource. The authors demonstrate the importance of educational technology, which is quickly becoming an essential component in effective teaching. Included are over 100 organized classroom strategies, vignettes that show each section’s strategies in action, and a glossary of classroom-relevant technology terms. Key research is summarized and translated into classroom recommendations.

The use of information and communications technology (ICT) in education is leading to fundamental changes in traditional learning and teaching practices. Increased use of electronic libraries and databases, multimedia courseware and computer-mediated communication is giving rise to an entirely new educational experience, that is prompting educators to assess the potential for improved and enriched learning and teaching models. Learning and Teaching with Technology explores the creative opportunities offered by ICT, and provides an authoritative, rigorous survey of the ways in which ICT is curr.

This book explains how educational research can inform the design of technology-enhanced learning environments. After laying pedagogical, technological and content foundations, it analyses learning in Web 2.0, Social Networking, Mobile Learning and Virtual Worlds to derive nuanced principles for technology-enhanced learning design.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International Conference on ICT in Teaching and Learning, ICT 2011, jointly held in Hong Kong, China, in July 2011 with the 15th Hong Kong Web Symposium. The 30 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers present current research on innovative and effective usage of social networking, multimedia and mobile learning technologies. Topics addressed are such as: emerging pedagogies, mobile technologies, Web 2.0, social networking, bookmarking and repository communities, e-learning, mobile and distributed learning, social computing mobile learning system design and architecture semantic Web applications d-learning, e-learning, m-learning education environments privacy, risk, and security.

Educational technology is growing fast, with educational institutions more than ever looking for the best ways to use to support learning. This is an accessible introduction to the issues important for teachers and other educational professionals.