Computers Technology category: 8704 books
Technology and Engagement
Making Technology Work for First Generation College Students
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2018
Technology and Engagement is based on a four-year study of how first generation college students use social media, aimed at improving their transition to and engagement with their university. Through web technology, including social media sites, students were better able to maintain close ties with...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2016
Since its inception, eye-tracking technology has evolved into a critical device in psychological and sociological settings. By tracking eye movement, one can conduct lie detection, learn about neuropsychology, and measure reading response. Recently, these technologies have been implemented in Educational...
Education, Narrative Technologies and Digital Learning
Designing Storytelling for Creativity with Computing
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2018
This book examines and illustrates the potential of narrative technology, the integration and synthesis of storytelling and digital media in education. Storytelling is a foundational and powerful process in all learning and teaching, and technology is becoming ever more ubiquitous and sophisticated,...
Tech-Savvy Parenting
A Guide to Raising Safe Children in a Digital World
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2014
•Are you a parent looking to make sense of a daunting digital world, with new technical challenges appearing daily?
• Feel you’re not keeping up with the demands of technology?
• Feel you’re not keeping up with your children’s use of social media?
• Worried it’s getting harder to keep...
Technology for Facilitating Humanity and Combating Social Deviations
Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2010
Technology has been used to perpetrate crimes against humans, animals, and the environment, which include racism, cyber-bulling, illegal pornography, torture, illegal trade of exotic species, irresponsible waste disposal, and other harmful aberrations of human behavior. Technology for Facilitating Humanity...
The Classroom Arsenal
Military Research, Information Technology and Public Education
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
A quarter of a century after its initial publication, The Classroom Arsenal remains pivotal in understanding and challenging the relentless promotion of technology to reform education. This seemingly benign education technology juggernaut carries forward the momentum of military agendas in man-machine...
Culture, Technology, Communication. Common World, Different Futures
10th IFIP WG 13.8 International Conference, CaTaC 2016, London, UK, June 15-17, 2016, Revised Selected Papers
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2016
This volume constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 10th IFIP WG 13.8 International Conference on Culture, Technology, and Communication, CaTaC 2016, held in London, UK, in June 2016.
The 9 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 22 submissions. The...
Disruptive Technology Enhanced Learning
The Use and Misuse of Digital Technologies in Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2017
This book is about how technologies are used in practice to support learning and teaching in higher education. Despite digitization and e-learning becoming ever-increasingly popular in university teaching settings, this book convincingly argues instead in favour of simple and convenient technologies,...
Building School 2.0
How to Create the Schools We Need
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2015
Ninety-five propositions for creating more relevant, more caring schools
There is a growing desire to reexamine education and learning. Educators use the phrase "school 2.0" to think about what schools will look like in the future. Moving beyond a basic examination of using technology for classroom...
Visual Information Processing in Wireless Sensor Networks
Technology, Trends and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2011
Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have many applications ranging from environmental monitoring, security management, and medical applications to smart homes. Visual Information Processing in Wireless Sensor Networks: Technology, Trends and Applications provides a central source of reference on visual information...
Technology Tools for Students With Autism
Innovations that Enhance Independence and Learning
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2014
Technology holds great promise for helping students with autism learn, communicate, and function effectively in the modern world. Start leveraging that power today with this forward-thinking book, your in-depth guided tour of technologies that support learners with autism and help them fully participate...
The Design of Instruction and Evaluation
Affordances of Using Media and Technology
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2004
This book is about empirically tested knowledge and principles that inform the design of instructional and evaluation systems, and the use and promise of media and technology within such systems.
Historically, psychology has informed the design of instructional and evaluation systems in different...
Information Technology for Management: Emerging Research and Applications
15th Conference, AITM 2018, and 13th Conference, ISM 2018, Held as Part of FedCSIS, Poznan, Poland, September 9–12, 2018, Revised and Extended Selected Papers
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2019
This book constitutes extended selected papers from the 16th Conference on Advanced Information Technologies for Management, AITM 2018, and the 13th Conference on Information Systems Management, ISM 2018, held as part of the Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems, FedCSIS,...
Information Technology in Biomedicine
Proceedings 6th International Conference, ITIB’2018, Kamień Śląski, Poland, June 18–20, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
ITiB’2018 is the 6th Conference on Information Technology in Biomedicine, hosted every two years by the Department of Informatics & Medical Devices, Faculty of Biomedical Engineering, Silesian University of Technology. The Conference is organized under the auspices of the Committee on Biocybernetics...