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Information Communication Technologies for Enhanced Education and Learning: Advanced Applications and Developments

Information Communication Technologies for Enhanced Education and Learning: Advanced Applications and Developments

Lawrence A. Tomei (Robert Morris University, USA)
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Release Date: December, 2008 | Copyright: © 2009 | Pages: 394

Publication Status: E-Book and Print Version Available for Purchase
ISBN13: 9781605661506
EISBN13: 9781605661513
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-150-6

Description:

The influence of technology on the educational system has greatly impacted the creative ways students are now learning. Educators can now enhance their instruction through cutting-edge tools and methodologies that appeal to contemporary students who are already immersed in a technology-rich environment.

Information Communication Technologies for Enhanced Education and Learning: Advanced Applications and Developments represents a unique examination of technology-based design, development, and collaborative tools for the classroom. Covering advanced topics in e-pedagogy, online learning, and virtual instruction, this book contributes high quality research for addressing technological integration in the classroom – a must-have for 21st century academicians, students, educational researchers, and practicing teachers.
Coverage:

The many academic areas covered in this publication include, but are not limited to:

  • Agent-based laboratory
  • Collaborative activity
  • Competent Web dialogues
  • E-Pedagogy
  • Gender communication gap
  • Information Communication Technologies
  • Innovative educators
  • Interactive technologies for education and learning
  • Intersubjectivity
  • Media and women in technology
  • Online Instructors
  • Online Learning
  • Online professional development
  • Online threaded discussions
  • PowerPoint presentations
  • Student Web portfolios
  • Synchronous hybrid e-learning
  • Technology Acceptance Model
  • Virtual high schools

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The text offers an examination of web-based portfolios, web-based dialogues, plus an array of interactive asynchronous technologies such as blogs, wikis, podcasts, etc. as well as procedures for assessing online discussion forum participation.

– Lawrence A. Tomei, Robert Morris University, USA

This book evaluates the effectiveness of online learning and virtual instruction at the high school and college level.

– Book News Inc.

The teacher of the future can go a long way in transitioning from old thinking to new thinking by assimilating the novel, cutting edge approaches to integrating e-learning into their own professional training and development profiled in this book. Pick it up and read it!

– Beck Mangin, Early Childhood Professional

Lawrence A. Tomei is a recently retired Professor of Education at Robert Morris University in Pittsburgh PA. Born in Akron, Ohio, he earned a BSBA from the University of Akron (1972) and a Masters of Public Administration and Masters of Education at the University of Oklahoma (1975, 1978). He completed his EdD from USC (1983). Dr. Tomei entered the US Air Force in Fall 1972 and served on active duty until his retirement as a Lieutenant Colonel in 1994. He entered higher education as the Director of Administrative Technology at Duquesne University (1994-1998) and joined its School of Education full-time faculty as Instructional Technology Program Director, providing undergraduate, masters, and doctor programs (1998-2004). Some of his books on instructional technology include: (2001), (2002), (2005), (2015), (2016), and (2019).

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Associate Editors

  • Tonya Barrier, University of Texas at Arlington, USA
  • Dencho Batanov, Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand
  • David Carbonara, Duquesne University, USA
  • Martin Crossland, Oklahoma State University, USA
  • Mary Hricko, Kent State University, USA
  • Jeffrey Hsu, Fairleigh Dickinson University, USA
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