Technologies for enhancing pedagogy, engagement and empowerment in education creating learning-friendly environments /

"This book explores how technology-based learning can enhance student engagement, performance, and empowerment, offering insights from educational programs, classroom teaching, and theory-into-practice research, and places educational technologies appropriately in their social and cultural cont...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: IGI Global.
Other Authors: Le, Thao, 1948-, Lê, Quynh, 1962-
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Published: Hershey, Pa. : IGI Global (701 E. Chocolate Avenue, Hershey, Pennsylvania, 17033, USA), c2012.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Enhancing pedagogy with mLearning / Damon Thomas, Angela Thomas and Andrew Fluck
  • 2. Digital technologies: enhancing pedagogy and extending opportunities for learning in senior secondary physical education? / Dawn Penney
  • 3. Technology-enhanced learning: the introduction and use of information and communication technology in special education / Adrian F. Ashman
  • 4. Using prediction markets to deliver authentic learning experiences / Patrick Buckley, John Garvey and Fergal McGrath
  • 5. New challenges in Web-based education / Quynh Lê and Mark Lê
  • 6. Online facilitator strategies of professors rated as providing different levels of support / Barbara Signer, Amanda McCluskey Prieto and Margot Ely
  • 7. Technology empowerment and the deployment of netbooks in education / Tom S. Chan, J. Stephanie Collins and Shahriar Movafaghi
  • 8. Investigating higher education and secondary school Web-based learning environments using the WEBLEI / Vinesh Chandra, Darrell Fisher and Vanessa Chang
  • 9. Digital learning environments and student-centered curriculum in a university context / Sevin ̇Gülseçen
  • 10. Creating an environment for pre-service teachers to develop technical pedagogical and content knowledge / Chun Hu
  • 11. MyLO: collaborative learning through Web-based courseware applications / Si Fan, Quynh Lê and Yun Yue
  • 12. Privacy concerns in social network sites / Arda Arikan
  • 13. Participatory culture, new media, and civic engagement: a generation who dares to hope / Sibylle Gruber
  • 14. ICT in Vietnamese education: development and challenges / Hoang Boi Nguyen and Thao Lê
  • 15. Intercultural awareness in E-learning / Eunice Luyegu
  • 16. Implications of ICT for society and individual / Mahan Ranjbar and Abbass Ghanbary
  • 17. Empowering students in computer-supported education / Yongming Shi, Si Fan and Yun Yue
  • 18. Mixed realities: human interaction technologies / Daniel Rolf
  • 19. Web-based learning: status quo and trend / Si Fan and Quynh Lê
  • 20. Student engagement with technology: so, what's it got to do with learning? / Garry Falloon
  • 21. Web conferencing and remote laboratories as part of blended learning in engineering and science: a paradigm shift in education or more of the same? / Steve Mackay, and Darrell Fisher
  • 22. Evaluating educational software: a historical overview and the challenges ahead / Michelle M. Mukherjee
  • 23. Accessibility issues of educational Web sites / Serhat Kurt
  • 24. Is all that glitters gold?: Re-thinking E-learning and education revolutions / Matthew Piscioneri
  • 25. ICT in higher education: evaluative views of teachers and students / Yang Yang, Hoang Boi Nguyen and Sun Hee Jang.