Computers Technology category: 8704 books
Teaching Machines
Learning from the Intersection of Education and Technology
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2014
The allure of educational technology is easy to understand. Classroom instruction is an expensive and time-consuming process fraught with contradictory theories and frustratingly uneven results. Educators, inspired by machines’ contributions to modern life, have been using technology to facilitate...
Cosmopolitan Commons
Sharing Resources and Risks across Borders
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2013
A new approach in commons theory to understand the interactions of technology, society, and nature, supported by case studies of new transnational European commons.
With the advent of modernity, the sharing of resources and infrastructures rapidly expanded beyond local communities into regional,...
From Notepad to iPad
Using Apps and Web Tools to Engage a New Generation of Students
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
This book is a one-stop-shop for secondary teachers looking to use iPads effectively in the classroom.The author provides a clear and practical overview of how to implement the technology, manage it, and use it successfully. Each chapter is full of tips and engaging classroom activities. Teachers...
by Mariana Regalado, Maura A. Smale
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
This book explores college students’ lived experiences of using digital technologies for their academic work. Access to and use of digital technologies is an integral aspect of higher education in the twenty-first century. However, despite the tech-savvy image of them propagated by the media, not...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2014
This book addresses main issues concerned with the future learning, learning and academic analytics, virtual world and smart user interface, and mobile learning. This book gathers the newest research results of smart learning environments from the aspects of learning, pedagogies, and technologies...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2013
The key idea of the book is that scientific and practical advances can be obtained if researchers working in traditions that have been assumed to be mutually incompatible make a real effort to engage in dialogue with each other, comparing and contrasting their understandings of a given phenomenon...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
This book presents the current state of the art in the field of e-publishing and social media, particularly in the Arabic context. The book discusses trends and challenges in the field of e-publishing, along with their implications for academic publishing, information services, e-learning and other...
Human Rights and Digital Technology
Digital Tightrope
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2016
Analysing the convergence of law and regulation with rapidly evolving communications technologies, this interdisciplinary work navigates the intricate balancing act between human rights protection and technological innovation in a digital age, and illuminates the comprehensive potential of human rights...
Outcome-Based Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Education
Innovative Practices
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2012
As the engineering education shifts away from traditional methods and towards the outcomes-based mastery of science, technology, engineering and math topics, curriculum design must also shift to reflect this new priority. Outcome-Based Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Education: Innovative...
Persuasive Technology
13th International Conference, PERSUASIVE 2018, Waterloo, ON, Canada, April 18-19, 2018, Proceedings
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Persuasive Technology, PERSUASIVE 2018, held in Waterloo, ON, Canada, in April 2018.
The 21 revised full papers and 4 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 59 submissions. The papers...
Interactivity, Game Creation, Design, Learning, and Innovation
6th International Conference, ArtsIT 2017, and Second International Conference, DLI 2017, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, October 30–31, 2017, Proceedings
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
This book constitutes the proceedings of two conferences: The 6th International Conference on ArtsIT, Interactivity and Game Creation (ArtsIT 2017) and the Second International Conference on Design, Learning and Innovation (DLI 2017).
The event was hosted in Heraklion, Crete, Greece, in...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2011
Online social media have transformed the face of human interaction in the 21st century. Wikis, blogs, online groups and forums, podcasts, virtual worlds, and social tagging are but a few of the applications enabling innovative behaviors that support acquisition, access, manipulation, retrieval, and...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2014
Today, Digital Systems and Services for Technology Supported Learning and Education are recognized as the key drivers to transform the way that individuals, groups and organizations “learn” and the way to “assess learning” in 21st Century. These transformations influence: Objectives - moving...
The New Development of Technology Enhanced Learning
Concept, Research and Best Practices
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
The book addresses the main issues concerned with the new development of learning processes, innovative pedagogical changes, the effects of new technologies on education, future learning content, which aims to gather the newest concepts, research and best practices on the frontiers of technology enhanced...