Facilitating Active Learning Opportunities for Students Through the Use of Technology-Enhanced Learning Tools: The Case for Pedagogic Innovation and Change

2020 ◽  
pp. 117-133
Author(s):  
Richard Walker
Keyword(s):  
Active Learning ◽  
Learning Opportunities ◽  
Technology Enhanced Learning ◽  
Learning Tools ◽  
Use Of Technology ◽  
Enhanced Learning ◽  
Innovation And Change

scholarly journals A Cloud-Based Mobile System to Improve Project Management Skills in Software Engineering Capstone Courses

2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Andres Neyem ◽  
Juan Diaz-Mosquera ◽  
Jose I. Benedetto
Keyword(s):  
Project Management ◽  
Software Engineering ◽  
Technology Enhanced Learning ◽  
Mobile System ◽  
Management Skills ◽  
Software Artifacts ◽  
Capstone Courses ◽  
Use Of Technology ◽  
Course Outcomes ◽  
Enhanced Learning

Capstone project-based courses offer a favorable environment for the development of student skills through an approach incorporating theoretical and practical components. However, it is often difficult to successfully coordinate between students, stakeholders, and the academic team. The absence of suitable tools for addressing this issue, along with time constraints, often prevents students from attaining the expected course outcomes. This raises the question “How can we improve project management skills in computing majors through the use of technology-enhanced learning environments?” This paper presents a Cloud-based mobile system for supporting project management under a framework of best practices in software engineering capstone courses. The Kanban approach was used as a core of the proposed system. Kanban boards are very popular in the software industry today. It has been empirically shown that they provide increased motivation and project activity control due to their inherent simplicity. This helps the students and academic team be aware of the project context as it aids in preventing ambiguities, flaws, or uncertainties in the development of software artifacts.

TECHNOLOGY IN THE TEACHING OF NEUROSCIENCE: ENHANCED STUDENT LEARNING

2003 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 146-155 ◽  
Author(s):  
John D. Griffin
Keyword(s):  
Student Learning ◽  
Group Learning ◽  
Education Technology ◽  
Technology Enhanced Learning ◽  
Teaching Tools ◽  
Use Of Technology ◽  
Hands On ◽  
Computer Based ◽  
Enhanced Learning ◽  
Enhance Student Learning

The primary motivation for integrating any form of education technology into a particular course or curriculum should always be to enhance student learning. However, it can be difficult to determine which technologies will be the most appropriate and effective teaching tools. Through the alignment of technology-enhanced learning experiences with a clear set of learning objectives, teaching becomes more efficient and effective and learning is truly enhanced. In this article, I describe how I have made extensive use of technology in two neuroscience courses that differ in structure and content. Course websites function as resource centers and provide a forum for student interaction. PowerPoint presentations enhance formal lectures and provide an organized outline of presented material. Some lectures are also supplemented with interactive CD-ROMs, used in the presentation of difficult physiological concepts. In addition, a computer-based physiological recording system is used in laboratory sessions, improving the hands-on experience of group learning while reinforcing the concepts of the research method. Although technology can provide powerful teaching tools, the enhancement of the learning environment is still dependent on the instructor. It is the skill and enthusiasm of the instructor that determines whether technology will be used effectively.

scholarly journals Online, Blended And Technology-Enhanced Learning: Tools To Facilitate Community College Student Success In The Digitally-Driven Workplace

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 255-262 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dawn Levy
Keyword(s):  
Community College ◽  
Online Learning ◽  
Value Added ◽  
Community College Student ◽  
Retention Rates ◽  
Technology Enhanced Learning ◽  
Learning Tools ◽  
Self Directed Learning ◽  
Online Learning Resources ◽  
Enhanced Learning

Community colleges have embraced distance education as a means to provide increased flexibility and access to their large numbers of non-traditional students. Retention rates and student achievement measures alone may not reflect all of the benefits and opportunities that online learning, blended or hybrid learning, and technology-enhanced learning may afford these students. Online learning resources should be viewed as a tremendous value-added benefit for community college students, not only for the content conveyed, but also for fostering the digital readiness, cultivating the professional personas, and encouraging the self-directed learning needed to succeed in the digitally-driven workplace.

Technology Enhanced Learning Tools

2008 ◽  
pp. 1-27
Author(s):  
Goran Shimic
Keyword(s):  
Main Part ◽  
Learning Management Systems ◽  
Systems Development ◽  
Short Description ◽  
Learning Systems ◽  
Technology Enhanced Learning ◽  
Learning Tools ◽  
Intelligent Behavior ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Enhanced Learning

This chapter emphasizes the variety of today’s e-learning systems. They have both positive and negative characteristics. Several useful tools are common for these systems. The main part of this chapter contains a detailed description of e-learning systems and their tools. If a system is appropriate for the needs of the learner then it has more intelligent behavior and its tools are more specialized. Some systems have separate tools that act as standalone applications. Others contain built in tools. In this chapter, the e-learning tools are grouped by their functions. Owing to standardization efforts, the differences between the e-learning tools become their advantages, and the e-learning systems become interoperable. The intelligent learning management systems (ILMS) become a new way to integrate the benefits of the different e-learning systems. At the end of the chapter there is a short description of an ILMS named Multitutor. This represents a possible way of future e-learning systems development.

scholarly journals A Model for Discussing the Quality of Technology-Enhanced Learning in Blended Learning Programmes

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 1-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diogo Casanova ◽  
António Moreira
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Blended Learning ◽  
Course Design ◽  
Technology Enhanced Learning ◽  
Learning And Teaching ◽  
Grounded Theory Method ◽  
Use Of Technology ◽  
Face To Face Learning ◽  
Enhanced Learning

This paper presents a comprehensive model for supporting informed and critical discussions concerning the quality of Technology-Enhanced Learning in Blended Learning programmes. The model aims to support discussions around domains such as how institutions are prepared, the participants' background and expectations, the course design, and the learning process. The research that supported the design of this model was framed by a Grounded Theory method, combining different approaches to empirical data collection with a review of evaluation models on aspects of the quality of Online and Distance Learning. Throughout the paper, arguments are made that Higher Education institutions need to be more critical with regard to the use of Technology-Enhanced Learning, and to support it as a counterpart to face-to-face learning and teaching. The model provides a framework for teachers in Higher Education to reflect and discuss the quality of Technology-Enhanced Learning in their Blended Learning programmes.

Towards a resilient strategy for technology‐enhanced learning

2011 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 234-249 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Hall
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Higher Education ◽  
Shared Values ◽  
Technology Enhanced Learning ◽  
Peak Oil ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Use Of Technology ◽  
Strategic Implementation ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Enhanced Learning

PurposeThis paper sets out to argue that the strategic implementation of technology is implicated in a range of crises or socio‐economic disruptions, like peak oil, climate change and the rising environmental costs of energy consumption. It aims to argue that institutional technological implementation is contested, complex and should not be treated deterministically, but that technologists might usefully consider the impact of these disruptions on their practices. The paper seeks to amplify how a focus on resilience, rather than marketised outcomes, can enable higher education to use technology to overcome or adapt to disruption and crises.Design/methodology/approachThe paper is a critique. A conceptual analysis of the place of current research into the use of technology‐enhanced learning in higher education is critiqued in light of peak oil and climate change, in order to align strategic developments with disruptions and potential responses. The strategic response of one institution is outlined as a programme‐of‐work, and is related to a second university's approach.FindingsThe paper highlights five areas that require strategic responses to the use of technology in and for HE. These are: the place of TEL in the idea of the University; complexity in the use of technology, linked to shared values; adapting to disruption; institutional planning; and competing priorities for the use of technology.Originality/valueThe paper highlights the educational connections that are made between the politics of technology, shared values and socio‐environmental disruption. It also analyses a programme of work that is designed to engage with and adapt to disruption.

scholarly journals Conceptions of learning in technology-enhanced learning environments

2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 184-205
Author(s):  
Chin-Chung Tsai
Keyword(s):  
Learning Environments ◽  
Technology Enhanced Learning ◽  
Learning Approaches ◽  
Conceptions Of Learning ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Educational Culture ◽  
Use Of Technology ◽  
Cram Schools ◽  
Future Work ◽  
Enhanced Learning

Purpose The purpose of this papers is to provide an overview of how students and teachers in Taiwan conceptualize learning, especially in technology-enhanced learning environments. Their conceptions of learning reveal the extent to which the prevalence of technological use in education has facilitated students to cultivate a more advanced conception of learning and develop a deeper learning approach. Design/methodology/approach It reviews a total of nine relevant case studies, covering the contexts of conventional schools (from elementary schools to college, and cram schools) as well as technology-enhanced environments (internet-assisted learning and mobile learning); and participants from Grade 2 students to adult learners as well as teachers. Their conceptions of learning and preferred learning approaches are summarized. Findings Results of the studies show the Taiwanese students’ and teachers’ conceptions of learning in general and of technology-enhanced learning in particular. The students tended to be passive learners to receive instructions and considered examinations as a short-term goal for their study, with surface learning approaches commonly adopted. Despite technology may help to promote their cultivation of a more sophisticated conception of learning, many of them still opted for rote memorization and practice as the major ways to study. The potentials of technology in enhancing learning thus have not been fully realized. Originality/value The results shed light on an Asian-specific educational culture which is exam oriented. They reveal the challenges regarding the use of technology in education, which hinder the promotion of students’ advanced conceptions of learning. They also highlight the directions of future work to create a more accessible and gratifying technology-enhanced environment.

scholarly journals Reframing Writing Instruction in Physical Learning Environments: Making Connections Between Digital and Nondigital Technologies

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 87-98
Author(s):  
Andy Buchenot ◽  
Tiffany Anne Roman
Keyword(s):  
Active Learning ◽  
Writing Instruction ◽  
Learning Environments ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Student Writing ◽  
Technology Enhanced Learning ◽  
Composition Course ◽  
Technological Affordances ◽  
Enhanced Learning

Active Learning Classrooms provide several advantages for teaching and learning by offering many physical and technological affordances that one can choose from when designing instruction. For courses where student writing is central activity to course learning outcomes, a challenge exists in that the innovative digital technologies may hide the opportunity to incorporate non-digital tools, such as paper-based student writing. We argue that treating student writing as a technology can increase opportunities for active learning within technology-enhanced learning environments. In this article, we describe an approach to writing instruction that builds intentional connections between paper-based texts and digital technologies, describing the rationale for the design decisions in an introductory composition course through a design case model. Classroom applications are discussed for physical learning spaces where student writing is incorporated into overall course learning activities.

scholarly journals Usage of technology enhanced learning tools and organizational change perception

2012 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 285-302 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mladen Cudanov ◽  
Gheorghe Savoiu ◽  
Ondrej Jasko
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Change ◽  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Organizational Structure ◽  
Technology Enhanced Learning ◽  
Learning Tools ◽  
Change Perception ◽  
Management Processes ◽  
The Social ◽  
Enhanced Learning ◽  
Knowledge Management Processes

This paper presents an analysis of organizational changes perceived by the employees in the organizations where Technology Enhanced Learning was facilitated by tools such as wiki, (we)blog, the Internet forum and the social network, practice often considered as Elearning 2.0. Our research focuses on the technologically advanced organizations, leaders in the CT and IS adoption. We specifically observe the perception of influence on the organizational structure, organizational culture and the knowledge management processes in the organization. Our findings are that the TEL tools are perceived to have a noteworthy impact on the organizational change in the three mentioned areas, and that the perception of change significantly differs in dependence on whether the employees are regular or are not regular users of organizational structure and knowledge management processes.

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