scholarly journals Editorial: Shifting from technology-enhanced learning to technology-transformed learning - Best papers selected from the conference APTEL 2010

2011 ◽  
pp. 306-309
Keyword(s):  
Situated Learning ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Technology Enhanced Learning ◽  
Problem Solving Skills ◽  
The Past ◽  
Innovative Learning ◽  
Innovative Learning Environments ◽  
Enhanced Learning ◽  
Factual Learning

In the past decade, the rapid development of computer and communication technologies brings many opportunities for developing innovative learning environments with rich resources. Technology enhanced learning shifted their focus from technology to support factual learning, memorization and the reinforcement of basic skills to stimulate students to engage in meaningful learning and situated learning. With the support of computer and communication technologies, students are able to develop higher-order skills, such as critical thinking and problem-solving skills individually or collaboratively. Technology enhanced learning has become an interdisciplinary issue that attracts researchers from various fields to work together.

Mobile Technology-Enhanced Learning

2015 ◽  
pp. 541-548 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gwo-Jen Hwang
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Technology ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Learning Activities ◽  
Mobile Technologies ◽  
Technology Enhanced Learning ◽  
Digital Learning ◽  
Science Courses ◽  
Real World Learning ◽  
Learning Scenarios ◽  
Enhanced Learning

Educators have pointed out the necessity of situating students in real-world learning scenarios. They have also indicated the importance of providing a technology-enhanced learning environment that enables students to access digital learning resources in anywhere and at any time. The popularity of mobile and wireless communication technologies has provided a good opportunity to accomplish these objectives. In the past decade, many studies that employ those technologies in various practical educational settings, such as the learning activities of computer, mathematics, engineering, social science and natural science courses, have been reported. In addition, various strategies and tools have been proposed to help students more effectively learn with mobile devices. In this article, the strategies, applications and trends of mobile technology-enhanced learning are reported based on the literature. It is expected that the article would benefit those who are interested in applying mobile technologies to learning activities or training programs.

Progress and Prospects for Estonian Libraries

2011 ◽  
pp. 221-237 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sirje Virkus
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Information And Communication Technology ◽  
Communication Technology ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Library Services ◽  
The Past ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
New Challenges

The rapid development of information and communication technology (ICT) over the past decades has created new challenges and opportunities for libraries and librarians. As a result of ICT, library services to users have changed, the management of libraries has evolved and the roles of librarians have multiplied. The new millennium presents new opportunities to exploit an ever-growing array of information and communication technologies in the provision of library services. As one millennium draws to a close and a new one begins, there are a lot of questions to answer:

scholarly journals Computer-Based Concept Mapping as a Method for Enhancing the Effectiveness of Concept Learning in Technology-Enhanced Learning

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 1005 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gülsüm Aşıksoy
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Concept Mapping ◽  
Concept Learning ◽  
Meaningful Learning ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Technology Enhanced Learning ◽  
Problem Solving Skills ◽  
Computer Based ◽  
Enhanced Learning ◽  
Experimental Group

Technology enhanced learning is a wide area that covers all uses of digital technology to support learning and teaching activities. The computer-based concept mapping has shown potential in enhancing meaningful learning in education. Concept mapping is an important tool that is used in the field of education to help students in understanding the basic concepts and the relationships between them. This research proposes a computer-based concept mapping (CBCM) environment combined with Google classroom to help students reduce their misconceptions and to improve their problem solving skills. Furthermore, it examines the effect of CBCM on the sustainability of concept learning according to student views. The participants were first-year engineering students. The study was conducted in a physics class, and a true-experimental design was used. The experimental group students learned with the Google classroom combined with computer-based concept mapping (CBCM), while the concept group students learned with Google classroom and the traditional method. Data were collected from a physics concept test, problem solving inventory, and semi-structured interviews. The research results indicated that teaching in the CBCM environment combined with Google Classroom provides meaningful learning by correcting the misconceptions of the students. Moreover, there was a significant increase in the problem solving skills of the experimental group as compared to the control group. According to the students’ views, it was determined that CBCM enhances the sustainability of concept learning. The results of this study can help educators and researchers to integrate computer-based concept mapping (CBCM) techniques into Google Classroom.

scholarly journals Foreword

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-2
Author(s):  
J.D. Walker
Keyword(s):  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Learning Spaces ◽  
Student Body ◽  
The Past ◽  
Diverse Student Body ◽  
Diverse Student ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Innovative Learning ◽  
Innovative Learning Environments ◽  
Educational Importance

Over the past few decades, researchers have produced a body of literature that examines the educational importance of space, finding that how learning spaces are laid out, furnished, and equipped makes a difference to the teaching and learning process. Put another way, the formal learning spaces in which much teaching takes place, such as classrooms and laboratories, are not neutral. Different types of classrooms can facilitate, or retard, the implementation of different teaching techniques, and we have only begun to study the ways in which innovative learning environments may enhance equity in the education of our increasingly diverse student body.

ICT-Enabled Education in Africa

2008 ◽  
pp. 1284-1304 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shafika Isaacs
Keyword(s):  
Task Force ◽  
Integrated System ◽  
Technology Enhanced Learning ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Historical Evolution ◽  
Education Programs ◽  
Beneficial Effects ◽  
The Past ◽  
Learning Programs ◽  
Enhanced Learning

This essay prompts critical thinking on the way ICT-enabled education programs in Africa have been conceptualized and implemented. It reflects mainly on the experiences of the African SchoolNet movement over the past decade. It highlights important lessons and demonstrates the beneficial effects of technology-enhanced learning programs on African learners and teachers who have had the privilege of being included in SchoolNet initiatives. However, it also shows that the accumulated interventions and programs to date remain insignificant in scale to catalyze a resounding shift toward resolving the crisis in Africa’s education systems; it makes the case for integrated system-wide, locally led approaches that soberly takes account of the challenges imposed by globalization. The chapter traces the historical evolution of frameworks to promote African inclusion in the information society, and allusions are specifically made to the emergence of the NEPAD eSchools, and the Global eSchools and Communities Initiative of the UN ICT Task Force, which hold the potential for advancing the frontiers of learning in Africa. Here, the author emphasizes, however, that these new initiatives need to draw on the accumulated learning and experience of the SchoolNet movement over the past 10 years in Africa to succeed. Finally, the chapter raises the dearth of evidence-based research made in Africa by Africans who would verify or refute the case for stronger investment in ICTs for education. It then proffers suggestions on areas for further research.

Technology Adoption as a Student-Driven Learning Strategy

2017 ◽  
pp. 104-124 ◽  
Author(s):  
Neeta Baporikar
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Learning Strategy ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Technology Enhanced Learning ◽  
Theory Approach ◽  
Learning And Teaching ◽  
Use Of Technology ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Enhanced Learning ◽  
Grounded Theory Approach

The use of technology for learning and teaching brings optimism and opportunity for education. It liberates both the teacher and the student in the scholarly enterprise by removing traditional boundaries and restrictions to knowledge. However, it also challenges us to consider the best possible uses of that technology for our students and, more fundamentally, our actions as educators. The term technology enhanced learning is used extensively throughout the educational world; it is the latest in an assortment of terms that have been used to describe the application of information and communication technologies (ICT) to learning and teaching. Through exhaustive literature review and grounded theory approach this chapter reflects on the teaching – technology nexus, the use of technology as a student driven learning strategy with focus on augmenting student learning. The findings indicate that there is a strong nexus between teaching and technology in today's world. Further, adopting technology would aid better to put students in the driver's seat.

Student Development of E-Workbooks

2015 ◽  
pp. 447-468
Author(s):  
Selena Chan ◽  
Katrina Fisher ◽  
Peter Sauer
Keyword(s):  
Student Engagement ◽  
Student Development ◽  
Situated Learning ◽  
Learning Activities ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Technology Enhanced Learning ◽  
Learning Approaches ◽  
Action Research Approach ◽  
Enhanced Learning ◽  
Pedagogical Approaches

The project reported in this chapter is based on the combination, inter-relationships and synergies of four pedagogical approaches to improve student engagement with learning. These approaches are mobile learning; constructivist learning, with contemporary emphasis in the form of connectivism; situated learning of skills in purpose-built workrooms and workshops mirroring ‘real-world' practice environments; and multimodal and multi-literate user interactivity. In the project, the interactions of the above four pedagogical approaches, led to the development of ‘situated-technology-enhanced learning' (STEL). Situated-technology enhanced learning is enabled through the deployment of net tablets in the form of ipad2s and Android operating system tablets and a selection of mobile apps. Of importance is the use of net tablets to encourage students to create their own E-textbooks or E-workbooks. These E-workbooks are collated by collecting and annotating photos, videos, and notes of students' progressive skills and knowledge learning as practical learning and theory-based learning activities occur in specialised workshops/workrooms. This project evaluated how to best deploy situated-technology enhanced learning to increase student engagement in learning; encourage teaching and learning activities based on student-centred and student-generated learning approaches; and develop teaching staff and student capability in using technology to support student learning. The overarching theme arising from the study was the need to enable students and staff to utilise technology for learning. An outcome of this project is the derivation of guidelines, achieved through the project's participative action research approach, to assist other vocational educational institutions to introduce net tablets into trades-based learning spaces.

Situation-Based and Activity-Based Learning Strategies for Pervasive Learning Systems at Workplace

2011 ◽  
pp. 87-102 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amel Bouzeghoub ◽  
Serge Garlatti ◽  
Kien Ngoc Do ◽  
Cuong Pham-Nguyen
Keyword(s):  
Learning Strategies ◽  
Situated Learning ◽  
Learning Systems ◽  
Learning Activities ◽  
Technology Enhanced Learning ◽  
Ubiquitous Learning ◽  
Context Adaptation ◽  
Enhanced Learning ◽  
Pervasive Learning

The chapter is organized as follows: the authors introduce some issues of technology-enhanced learning systems and define mobile, pervasive and ubiquitous learning and some closely related features: context, adaptation, situated learning, working and learning activities. Secondly, work-based learning features are described. Thirdly, situation-based and activity-based learning strategies are presented. Finally, the P-LearNet project is used to illustrate the proposal, and the conclusion summarizes the chapter and shows how and at which level this framework can be reused.

Learning Leadership and Technology Enhanced Learning

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-22
Author(s):  
Celia O'Hagan
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Educational Leaders ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Technology Enhanced Learning ◽  
Mediated Learning ◽  
Technology In The Classroom ◽  
Whole School ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Enhanced Learning

The development of technology in the classroom has gone through significant change in the last two decades. Inevitably there is a shift in vision within schools and colleges, requiring educational leaders to advance both tools for information and communication technologies as aids in the classroom and creative multimedia to offer a more comprehensive teaching and learning environment. This is particularly true where a strategy for whole school pertains. Effective leadership in education is also viewed in this light as integral to the advancement of technology enhanced learning both strategically and operationally. This chapter, in keeping with the theme of 'mediated learning', will advance the discussion for readers around the concept of teaching and learning-focused design and offers practical models for consideration both for leaders in education and for teachers in the classroom.

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