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Utilizing Virtual and Personal Learning Environments for Optimal Learning

Utilizing Virtual and Personal Learning Environments for Optimal Learning

Copyright: © 2016 |Pages: 375
ISBN13: 9781466688476|ISBN10: 1466688475|EISBN13: 9781466688483
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-8847-6
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Terry, Krista, and Amy Cheney, editors. Utilizing Virtual and Personal Learning Environments for Optimal Learning. IGI Global, 2016. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-8847-6

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Terry, K. & Cheney, A. (Eds.). (2016). Utilizing Virtual and Personal Learning Environments for Optimal Learning. IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-8847-6

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Terry, Krista, and Amy Cheney, eds. Utilizing Virtual and Personal Learning Environments for Optimal Learning. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2016. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-8847-6

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The integration of emerging technologies in higher education presents a new set of challenges and opportunities for educators. With a growing need for customized lesson plans in online education, educators are rethinking the design and development of their learning environments.

Utilizing Virtual and Personal Learning Environments for Optimal Learning expertly combines informative chapters and relevant case studies on the effective use of technology to enhance online education for students of varying learning styles and abilities. This publication is an essential reference source for educators, researchers, professionals, and upper-level students with an interest in leveraging digital technologies and virtual environments to enhance personalization in learning.

This publication features timely research and case studies focused on online teaching and learning techniques in higher education including immersive technologies, research methodologies, and pedagogical designs.

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Front Materials
Title Page
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Copyright Page
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Advances in Educational Technologies and Instructional Design (AETID) Book Series
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Foreword
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Preface
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Chapters
Chapter 1
Includes chapters that deal with immersive technologies for learning. Immersive technologies, which are generally defined as being able to provide a heightened sensory experience for users, include technologies such as multi-user...
Applications of Immersive Learning Environments
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Chapter 2
Includes chapters that focus on a range of technologies, from institutional learning management systems to e-portfolios, virtual manipulatives and personalized learning environments (PLEs).
Personal Learning Environments
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Chapter 3
Includes chapters that investigate virtual environments by questioning the role and potential impact of these technologies on notions of identity, community, and citizenship.
Identity, Community, and Citizenship
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Chapter 4
Includes chapters which address emerging concepts of research and scholarship based on the potential and affordances offered by the myriad technological possibilities that can be used to facilitate virtual and personal learning...
Emerging Research Methodologies
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Back Materials
Compilation of References
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About the Contributors
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Index
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