Technologies, Innovation, and Change in Personal and Virtual Learning Environments

Technologies, Innovation, and Change in Personal and Virtual Learning Environments

Copyright: © 2013 |Pages: 338

ISBN13: 9781466624672|ISBN10: 1466624671|EISBN13: 9781466624689

DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-2467-2

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Over the last decade there continues to be an increase in the technology and how it affects our lives. Since then the incorporation of electronic databases and other communication tools for students, faculty and staff, virtual learning environments have become an important innovation in the student learning experience.

Technologies, Innovation, and Change in Personal and Virtual Learning Environments presents a widespread collection of research on the growth, innovation and implementation of learning technologies for educators, technologists and trainers. The book is a useful source for academics and professionals interested in information and communication technologies.

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Front Materials

Title Page

Copyright Page

Editorial Advisory Board

Preface

Chapters

Technologies

Chapter 1

Learning Molecular Structures in a Tangible Augmented Reality Environment (pages 1-18)

Kikuo Asai, Norio Takase

This article presents the characteristics of using a tangible tabletop environment produced by augmented reality (AR), aimed at improving the environment in which learners observe three-dimensional molecular structures. The authors...

Chapter 2

Organisational Blogging: The Problem of Engagement (pages 19-35)

Gavin J. Baxter, Thomas Connolly, Mark Stansfield

This paper investigates the implementation and use of an internal organisational blog by several departments in the HR division in a large public sector financial organisation in the UK. This qualitative study adopts a case study...

Chapter 3

Game-Like Technology Innovation Education (pages 36-45)

Rikke Magnussen

This paper examines the methodological challenges and perspectives of designing game-like scenarios for the implementation of innovation processes in school science education. This paper presents a design-based research study of a...

Chapter 4

“World of Uncertainty” Game for Decision-Makers (pages 46-51)

Jyldyz Tabyldy Kyzy

Decisions on both personal and public matters benefit significantly if uncertainties and risks are handled with more care and accuracy. It is crucial to refine and express degrees of confidence and subjective probabilities of various...

Chapter 5

The Siren Song of Digital Simulation: Games, Procedural Rhetoric, and the Process of Historical Education (pages 52-64)

Jerremie Clyde, Glenn Wilkinson

This paper contrasts the importance of procedural rhetoric for the use of games in university and college level historical education with the use of history themed digital simulations. This paper starts by examining how history...

Chapter 6

Not Just Playing Around: The MoLeNET Experience of Using Games Technologies to Support Teaching and Learning (pages 65-78)

Rebecca Petley, Jill Attewell, Carol Savill-Smith

MoLeNET is a unique collaborative initiative, currently in its third year, which encourages and enables the introduction of mobile learning in English post 14 education via supported shared-cost projects. Mobile learning in MoLeNET...

Chapter 7

From the Games Industry: Ten Lessons for Game-Based Learning (pages 79-88)

Paul Hollins, Nicola Whitton

This paper draws on lessons learned from the development process of the entertainment games industry and discusses how they can be applied to the field of game-based learning. This paper examines policy makers and those wishing to...

Innovation

Chapter 8

Social Networking Sites and Language Learning (pages 90-103)

Billy Brick

This article examines a study of seven learners who logged their experiences on the language leaning social networking site Livemocha over a period of three months. The features of the site are described and the likelihood of their...

Chapter 9

Using Learning Platforms to Support Communication and Effective Learning (pages 104-114)

Johanna M. Armitage

This paper describes the development of resources for a unit of work for the English National Diploma in Information Technology. These on-line resources are designed to support a personalised learning environment that maximises...

Chapter 10

Connected Learning in an Australian Technology Program: A Case Study (pages 115-124)

Jane Louise Hunter

Connected learning using video conferencing, the interactive whiteboard and Web 2.0 tools is possible in the new “interactive classroom” more than 2,240 New South Wales public schools will receive over the next four years. In...

Chapter 11

Motivation, Engagement and Learning through Digital Games (pages 125-140)

Ioanna Iacovides, James Aczel, Eileen Scanlon, Josie Taylor, Will Woods

Digital games can be powerful learning environments because they encourage active learning and participation within “affinity groups” (Gee, 2004). However, the use of games in formal educational environments is not always successful...

Chapter 12

An Evaluation of Neurogames®: A Collection of Computer Games Designed to Improve Literacy and Numeracy (pages 141-154)

Misbah Mahmood Khan, Jonathan Reed

Games Based Learning needs to be linked to good learning theory to become an important educational intervention. This study examines the effectiveness of a collection of computer games called Neurogames®. Neurogames are a group of...

Chapter 13

Personal Smartphones in Primary School: Devices for a PLE? (pages 155-164)

Beat Döbeli Honegger, Christian Neff

This paper describes the goals and first results of an ongoing two year case study in a European primary school (5th primary class) where the teacher and all students were equipped with a personal smartphone. Students are allowed to...

Change

Chapter 14

Personal Learning Environments: Concept or Technology? (pages 166-176)

Sebastian H. D. Fiedler, Terje Väljataga

This paper reviews and critiques how the notion of PLEs has been conceptualised and discussed in literature so far. It interprets the variability of its interpretations and conceptualisations as the expression of a fundamental...

Chapter 15

Making it Rich and Personal: Crafting an Institutional Personal Learning Environment (pages 177-192)

Su White, Hugh C. Davis

Many of the communities interested in learning and teaching technologies within higher education now accept the view that a conception of personal learning environments provides the most realistic and workable perspective of...

Chapter 16

Exploring Task-Based Curriculum Development in a Blended-Learning Conversational Chinese Program (pages 193-211)

Yao Zhang Hill, Stephen L. Tschudi

This paper brings task-based language teaching (TBLT) curriculum development principles into the blended learning context, presenting processes and outcomes from a project to develop a task-based thematic unit — asking and giving...

Chapter 17

My Personal Mobile Language Learning Environment: An Exploration and Classification of Language Learning Possibilities Using the iPhone (pages 212-225)

Maria A. Perifanou

Mobile devices can motivate learners through moving language learning from predominantly classroom–based contexts into contexts that are free from time and space. The increasing development of new applications can offer valuable...

Chapter 18

Factors Affecting the Design and Development of a Personal Learning Environment: Research on Super-Users (pages 226-236)

Helene Fournier, Rita Kop

After speculation in literature about the nature of Personal Learning Environments, research in the design and development of PLEs is now in progress. This paper reports on the first phase of the authors’ research on PLE, the...

Chapter 19

Developing New Literacies through Blended Learning: Challenges and Lessons Learned in Ontario, Canada (pages 237-253)

Deborah Kitchener, Janet Murphy, Robert Lebans

This article reports on the implementation and impact of two blended models of teacher professional learning that promote innovative classroom practice and improved literacy and numeracy in six school districts in Ontario, Canada....

Chapter 20

Creative Networks of Practice Using Web 2.0 Tools (pages 254-270)

Jukka Orava, Pete Worrall

This paper examines the professional implications for teachers and managers in new and evolving forms of professional development using Web 2.0 tools in a European context. Research findings are presented from the “Creative Use of...

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