Enhancing Learning Through Technology

Digital technology for learning enhancement has been accepted in all levels of education, incorporating the ambitions of challenging traditional educational paradigms for the purpose of stimulating change and bringing about an innovation in the design of curricula. Enhancing Learning Through Technology identifies and presents the latest research on theory, practice, and capturing learning designs and best-practices. It demonstrates significant and innovative ways of improving learning processes through responsible integration of technology. This Book Identifies And Presents The Latest Research On Theory, Practice, And Capturing Learning Designs And Best-practices In Education--provided By Publisher. Online Communities And Professional Teacher Learning : Affordances And Challenges / Norbert Pachler, Caroline Daly -- Enhancing Phronesis : Bridging Communities Through Technology / Anders D. Olofsson, J. Ola Lindberg -- Enhancing The Design Of A Successful Networked Course Collaboration; An Outsider Perspective / Rema Nilakanta [and Others] -- Enhanced Learning And Leading In A Technology Rich, 21st Century Global Learning Environment / Ian W. Gibson -- Enhancing Learning Through 3-d Virtual Environments / Erik Champion -- Inquisitivism : The Evolution Of A Constructivist Approach For Web-based Instruction / Dwayne Harapnuik -- Situated Learning And Interacting With/ Through Technologies : Enhancing Research And Design / Pirkko Raudaskoski -- Rethinking E-learning : Shifting The Focus To Learning Activities / Jorgen Bang, Christian Dalsgaard -- Computer-supported Collaborative Learning And The Central Research Questions : Two Illustrative Vignettes / Tony Carr [and Others] -- Identifying An Appropriate, Pedagogical, Networked Architecture For Online Learning Communities / Elsebeth Korsgaard Sorensen, Daithí Ó Murchú -- Ms. Chips And Her Battle Against The Cyborgs : Embedding Ict In Professional Praxis / J.p. Cuthell -- Making Sense Of Technologically Enhanced Learning In Context : A Research Agenda / Simon B. Heilesen, Sisse Siggaard Jensen -- Brain-based Learning / Kathleen Cercone. [editors] Elsebeth Korsgaard Sorensen, Daithí Ó Murchú. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Table of Contents Preface • Elsebeth Korsgaard Sorensen, Daithí Ó Murchú I. Online Communities and Professional Teacher Learning: Affordances and Challenges • Norbert Pachler, Caroline Daly II. Enhancing Phronesis: Bridging Communities Through Technology • Anders D. Olofsson, J. Ola Lindberg III. Enhancing the Design of a Successful Networked Course Collaboration: An Outsider Perspective • Rema Nilakanta, Laura Zurita, Olatz López Fernández, Elsebeth Korsgaard Sorensen, Eugene S. Takle IV. Enhanced Learning and Leading in a Technology Rich, 21st Century Global Learning Environment • Ian W. Gibson V. Enhancing Learning Through 3-D Virtual Environments • Erik Champion VI. Inquisitivism: The Evolution of a Constructivist Approach for Web-Based Instruction • Dwayne Harapnuik VII. Situated Learning and Interacting With/Through Technologies: Enhancing Research and Design • Pirkko Raudaskoski VIII. Rethinking E-Learning: Shifting the Focus to Learning Activities • Jørgen Bang, Christian Dalsgaard IX. Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning and the Central Research Questions: Two Illustrative Vignettes • Tony Carr, Vic Lally, Maarten de Laat, Glenda Cox X. Identifying an Appropriate, Pedagogical, Networked Architecture for Online Learning Communities • Elsebeth Korsgaard Sorensen, Daithí Ó Murchú XI. Ms. Chips and Her Battle Against the Cyborgs: Embedding ICT in Professional Praxis • J. P. Cuthell XII. Making Sense of Technologically Enhanced Learning in Context: A Research Agenda • Simon B. Heilesen, Sisse Siggaard Jensen XIII. Brain-Based Learning • Kathleen Cercone About the Authors Index The role of new technologies in professional teacher learning is an area that is as yet scarcely explored, despite the huge expansion of these technologies in schools, and the education system in general, over the past decade.