Technology Enhanced Learning: Best Practices

by Miltiadis D Lytras (Editor), Dragan Gasevic (Editor), Patricia Ordïïez de Pablos (Editor)

Overview

With the shift towards the knowledge society, the change of working conditions, and the high-speed evolution of information and communication technologies, peoples' knowledge and skills need continuous updating. Learning based on collaborative working, creativity, multidisciplinarity, adaptiveness, intercultural communication, and problem solving has taken on an important role in everyday life. Technology Enhanced Learning: Best Practices goes beyond traditional discussion on technology enhanced learning to provide research and insights on increasing the efficiency of learning for individuals and groups, facilitating the transfer and sharing of knowledge in organizations, and understanding of the learning process by exploring links among human learning, cognition, and technologies. This book offers estimable, comprehensive research to researchers and practitioners in the field of technology enhanced learning in various disciplines, including education, sociology, information technology, workplace learning, entertainment, healthcare, tourism, and many others.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781599046006
Publisher:	IGI Global
Publication date:	04/01/2008
Series:	Knowledge and Learning Society Books , #4
Pages:	406
Product dimensions:	7.20(w) x 10.20(h) x 1.10(d)

Table of Contents

Foreword     vi
Preface     viii
Acknowledgment     xiv
Technology Enhanced Learning Tools   Goran Shimic     1
TEL Practices in Preschool and Kindergarten Education: Integrating Computer Use and Computer Programming in Off-Computer Activities   Leonel Morgado   Quinta de Prados     28
The Blended Learning Classroom: An Online Teacher Training Program   Karen Garcia   Renata Suzuki     57
Collaborative Online Learning and Accessibility   Martin D. Beer   Paul Crowther   Elizabeth Uruchurtu     81
The Importance of Training Needs Analysis in Authoring Technology Enhanced Learning for Companies   Emma O'Brien   Timothy Hall   Kevin Johnson     107
Metacognition for Enhancing Online Learning   Giuseppe Chiazzese   Antonella Chifari   Gianluca Merlo   Simona Ottaviano   Luciano Seta     135
A Research- led Approach to Technology Enhanced Learning: Strategies, Programmes, Projects, & Pedagogies in UK Higher Education   Jacqueline A. Dempster     154
A Framework for Building Emotional-Motivational Agents as Intelligent Tutoring Entities   Bogdan-Florin Marin   Axel Hunger     168
Pedagogical Uses of MultimediaAnnotators and Players   Tetyana Sydorenko   Tom Myers, CTO   Alexander Nakhimovsky     185
Knowledge Mining for Adaptive Multimedia Web-Based Educational Platform   Leyla Zhuhadar   Olfa Nasraoui   Robert Wyatt     205
Towards More Intelligent Assessment Systems   Sonja Radenkovic   Nenad Krdzavac   Vladan Devedzic     257
Can Person-Centered Technology Enhanced Learning Contribute to Develop Project Management Soft Skills in an Academic Context?   Renate Motschnig-Pitrik   Michael Derntl     284
Military Applications of Adaptive Training Technology   James E. McCarthy     304
The Future of Technology Enhanced Active Learning: A Roadmap   Claus Pahl   Claire Kenny     348
About the Contributors     376
Index     385