Cases on Online Learning Communities and Beyond: Investigations and Applications
Cases on Online Learning Communities and Beyond: Investigations and Applications

Author: Yang, Harrison Hao

Publisher: IGI Global

Published: 2012-07-31

Total Pages: 501

ISBN-13: 1466619376

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Technology-enriched online settings provide new ways to support lifelong learning. Learners can interact with other learners, gain from their experiences, and then construct their own knowledge, be it through Google Docs, online collaborative communities, YouTube, wikis, or blogs. Cases on Online Learning Communities and Beyond: Investigations and Applications provides a variety of essential case studies which explore the benefits and pedagogical successes of distance learning, blended learning, collaborative learning environments, computer-supported group-based learning, and professional learning communities. This casebook is an essential resource for educators, instructional designers, trainers, administrators, and researchers working in the areas of online learning and distance learning.

Ubiquitous Inclusive Learning in a Digital Era
Ubiquitous Inclusive Learning in a Digital Era

Author: Ossiannilsson, Ebba

Publisher: IGI Global

Published: 2018-09-21

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 1522562931

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In open education, equality, accessibility, inclusiveness, and lifelong learning are key concerns. To meet, adapt to, and anticipate global goals and needs, as well as address open education concerns, educational programs require systemic changes and innovative leadership for advanced learning environments. Ubiquitous Inclusive Learning in a Digital Era provides innovative insights into the issues and current trends on open, online, flexible education and technology-enabled learning. The content within this publication represents the work of open online learning, hybrid learning, and inclusiveness. It is designed for educational administrators, teachers, librarians, government officials, and graduate-level students seeking covering on topics centered on educational technologies and equal access education.

The Routledge Companion to Media Education, Copyright, and Fair Use
The Routledge Companion to Media Education, Copyright, and Fair Use

Author: Renee Hobbs

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-02-15

Total Pages: 377

ISBN-13: 1317268342

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Media literacy educators rely on the ability to make use of copyrighted materials from mass media, digital media and popular culture for both analysis and production activities. Whether they work in higher education, elementary and secondary schools, or in informal learning settings in libraries, community and non-profit organizations, educators know that the practice of media literacy depends on a robust interpretation of copyright and fair use. With chapters written by leading scholars and practitioners from the fields of media studies, education, writing and rhetoric, law and society, library and information studies, and the digital humanities, this companion provides a scholarly and professional context for understanding the ways in which new conceptualizations of copyright and fair use are shaping the pedagogical practices of media literacy.

Advanced Research in Adult Learning and Professional Development: Tools, Trends, and Methodologies
Advanced Research in Adult Learning and Professional Development: Tools, Trends, and Methodologies

Author: Wang, Victor C.X.

Publisher: IGI Global

Published: 2013-10-31

Total Pages: 392

ISBN-13: 1466646160

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Continuous advances in technologies, individuals, and the workplace have increased the importance of adult learning and professional development for keeping up with the current pace of technologies and information. Advanced Research in Adult Learning and Professional Development: Tools, Trends, and Methodologies explores the understanding, practice, and research within technical education and professional development. By providing a comprehensive view on educational technologies for adult learning, this book is essential for lecturers, practitioners, as well as academics interested in a variety of research in continuing education.

Cases on the Assessment of Scenario and Game-Based Virtual Worlds in Higher Education
Cases on the Assessment of Scenario and Game-Based Virtual Worlds in Higher Education

Author: Kennedy-Clark, Shannon

Publisher: IGI Global

Published: 2014-04-30

Total Pages: 357

ISBN-13: 1466644710

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The ever-growing creation of new internet technologies has led to a growing trend and use of scenario-based virtual environments and serious games in education. Along with these new technologies, there is an increasing interest in how students can be effectively assessed when using these virtual environments. Cases on the Assessment of Scenario and Game-Based Virtual Worlds in Higher Education is a comprehensive collection that provides aspects of assessment in virtual worlds combined with lessons learned from critical reflection. These case studies present successes, challenges, and innovations to be utilized as a framework for practitioners and researchers to base their own effective forms of scenario-based learning. This publication would be of particular interest to practice-based disciplines such as education, nursing, medicine, and social work.

Online Tutor 2.0: Methodologies and Case Studies for Successful Learning
Online Tutor 2.0: Methodologies and Case Studies for Successful Learning

Author: García-Peñalvo, Francisco José

Publisher: IGI Global

Published: 2014-03-31

Total Pages: 406

ISBN-13: 1466658339

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After centuries of rethinking education and learning, the current theory is based on technology’s approach to and affect on the planned interaction between knowledge trainers and trainees. Online Tutor 2.0: Methodologies and Case Studies for Successful Learning demonstrates, through the exposure of successful cases in online education and training, the necessity of the human factor, particularly in teaching/tutoring roles, for ensuring the development of quality and excellent learning activities. The didactic patterns derived from these experiences and methodologies will provide a basis for a more powerful and efficient new generation of technology-based learning solutions for high school teachers, university professors, researchers, and students at all levels of education.

Augmented Reality for Enhanced Learning Environments
Augmented Reality for Enhanced Learning Environments

Author: Reyes Ruiz, Gerardo

Publisher: IGI Global

Published: 2018-05-18

Total Pages: 343

ISBN-13: 1522552448

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In an environment where some countries are coming out of the recession at different speeds and others remain in a gloomy economic environment, education plays a vital role in reducing the negative impact of the global economic problems. In this sense, new technologies help to generate human resources with a better quality of education. Augmented Reality for Enhanced Learning Environments provides emerging research on using new technologies to encourage education and improve learning quality through augmented reality. While highlighting issues such as global economic problems impacting schools and insufficient aid, this publication explores new technologies in emerging economies and effective means of knowledge and learning transfer. This book is a vital resource for teachers, students, and aid workers seeking current research on creating a new horizon in science and technology to strengthen the current system of learning.

Educational Development and Infrastructure for Immigrants and Refugees
Educational Development and Infrastructure for Immigrants and Refugees

Author: Erçetin, ?efika ?ule

Publisher: IGI Global

Published: 2017-08-11

Total Pages: 393

ISBN-13: 1522533265

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Education is a pivotal influence on all members of society. However, in the case of immigrants and refugees integrating into a new country, allowing proper learning opportunities can offer specific challenges that must be overcome. Educational Development and Infrastructure for Immigrants and Refugees is an innovative source of scholarly research on the role of education for refugees and immigrants, and it examines methods to develop effective learning processes for these students. Highlighting a range of perspectives on topics such as lifelong learning, legal considerations, and multiculturalism, this book is ideally designed for teachers, policy makers, researchers, academics, and professionals actively involved in the education sector.