Contemporary Technologies in Education

Olusola Adesope is Associate Professor and Coordinator of the Educational Psychology Program in the Department of Educational Leadership, Sport Studies, Educational/Counseling Psychology at Washington State University, USA. A.G. Rud is Distinguished Professor in the Department of Teaching and Learning at Washington State University, USA.

Chapter 1. Maximizing the Affordances of Contemporary Technologies in Education: Promise and Possibilities.- Chapter 2. Improving Science Education through Developing Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge in Teachers.- Chapter 3. Toward Understanding the Practice and Potential of Educational Technologies on Our Campuses: Should We Be Skeptics First?.- Chapter 4. Promoting engagement through participatory social practices in next generation social media contexts.- Chapter 5. Signaling in Disciplinarily-Integrated Games: Challenges in Integrating Proven Cognitive Scaffolds within Game Mechanics to Promote Representational Competence.- Chapter 6. Cognitive Tools for Scaffolding Argumentation.- Chapter 7. Learning Analytics: Using Data-Informed Decision-Making to Improve Teaching and Learning.- Chapter 8. Enhancing Self-Regulated Learning for Information Problem Solving with Ambient Big Data Gathered by nStudy.- Chapter 9. Project Based Learning Progressions: Identifying the Nodes oflearning in a Project Based Environment.- Chapter 10. MOOCS and the Future of Higher Education.- Chapter 11. Just Posting in the Same Place: Confronting the Paucity of Collaborative Behavior in U.S., K-12 Wikis.