Contemporary Technologies in Education (eBook)

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 PossibilitiesChapter 2. Improving Science Education through Developing Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge in TeachersChapter 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 contextsChapter 5. Signaling in Disciplinarily-Integrated Games: Challenges in Integrating Proven Cognitive Scaffolds within Game Mechanics to Promote Representational CompetenceChapter 6. Cognitive Tools for Scaffolding ArgumentationChapter 7. Learning Analytics: Using Data-Informed Decision-Making to Improve Teaching and LearningChapter 8. Enhancing Self-Regulated Learning for Information Problem Solving with Ambient Big Data Gathered by nStudyChapter 9. Project Based Learning Progressions: Identifying the Nodes of learning in a Project Based EnvironmentChapter 10. MOOCS and the Future of Higher EducationChapter 11. Just Posting in the Same Place: Confronting the Paucity of Collaborative Behavior in U.S., K-12 Wikis