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  • Learning in Virtual Worlds

    Research and Applications

    Series series Issues in Distance Education
    Three-dimensional (3D) immersive virtual worlds have been touted as being capable of facilitating highly interactive, engaging, multimodal learning experiences. Much of the evidence gathered to support these claims has been anecdotal but the potential that these environments hold to solve traditional problems in online and technology-mediated education—primarily learner isolation and student ... Read more

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  • Authentic Virtual World Education

    Facilitating Cultural Engagement and Creativity

    Edited by Sue Gregory, Denise Wood ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    The book presents the possibilities and realities of virtual worlds in education through the application of 3D virtual worlds to support authentic learning, creativity, learner engagement and cultural diversity in higher education. It includes a unique variety of cross disciplinary approaches to research, teaching and learning in a virtual world, including analysis of data from the experiences of ... Read more

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    Education Reimagined

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    A free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere: this is the goal of the Khan Academy, a passion project that grew from an ex-engineer and hedge funder's online tutoring sessions with his niece, who was struggling with algebra, into a worldwide phenomenon. Today millions of students, parents, and teachers use the Khan Academy's free videos and software, which have expanded to encompass nearly ... Read more

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  • Emerging Technologies in Distance Education

    Edited by George Veletsianos ...
    Series series Issues in Distance Education
    A one-stop knowledge resource, Emerging Technologies in Distance Education showcases the international work of research scholars and innovative distance education practitioners who use emerging interactive technologies for teaching and learning at a distance. This widely anticipated book harnesses the dispersed knowledge of international experts who highlight pedagogical, organizational, cultural, ... Read more

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    How and Why Leading Universities Are Opening Up Access to Their Courses

    by Taylor Walsh ...
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  • Leadership of Assessment, Inclusion, and Learning

    Series series Education (R0)
    This book provides pragmatic strategies and models for student assessment and ameliorates the heightened sense of confusion that too many educators and leaders experience around the complexities associated with assessment. In particular, it offers guidance to school and district personnel charged with fair and appropriate assessment of students who represent a wide variety of abilities and ... Read more

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  • The Sciences of Learning and Instructional Design

    Constructive Articulation Between Communities

    Edited by Lin Lin, J. Michael Spector ...
    There are two distinct professional communities that share an interest in using innovative approaches and emerging technologies to design and implement effective support for learning. This edited collection addresses the growing divide between the learning sciences community and the instructional design and technology community, bringing leading scholars from both fields together in one volume in ... Read more

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  • Complex Dynamical Systems in Education

    Concepts, Methods and Applications

    Series series Education (R0)
    This book capitalizes on the developments in dynamical systems and education by presenting some of the most recent advances in this area in seventeen non-overlapping chapters. The first half of the book discusses the conceptual framework of complex dynamical systems and its applicability to educational processes. The second half presents a set of empirical studies thatthat illustrate the use of ... Read more

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  • Computer Science and Educational Software Design

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    Series series Computer Science (R0)
    Developing educational software requires thinking, problematizing, representing, modeling, implementing and analyzing pedagogical objectives and issues, as well as conceptual models and software architectures. Computer scientists face the difficulty of understanding the particular issues and phenomena to be taken into account in educational software projects and of avoiding a naïve technocentered ... Read more

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  • Learning in Real and Virtual Worlds

    Commercial Video Games as Educational Tools

    by P. Lacasa ...
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    Packed with critical analysis and real-life examples, this book explores how children's video games can cultivate learning. Lacasa takes several commercial video games and shows how they can be used both in and out of the classroom to teach initiative and problem-solving, encourage creativity, promote literacy, and develop reasoning skills. ... Read more

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  • Learning Analytics

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  • Media in Education

    Results from the 2011 ICEM and SIIE joint Conference

    Series series Education (R0)
    With the aim of discussing “old” and “new” teaching technologies, based on research and on the strategies and praxis of the use of technologies and methodologies in the different teaching levels, and also embracing the contribution and active participation of researchers, teachers, creators, managers and other specialists, the work will provide inputs on the following topics: Students’ ... Read more

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