Integration of Cloud Technologies in Digitally Networked Classrooms and Learning Communities

Integration of Cloud Technologies in Digitally Networked Classrooms and Learning Communities

Binod Gurung, Marohang Limbu

Copyright: © 2017 |Pages: 329

ISBN13: 9781522516507|ISBN10: 1522516506|EISBN13: 9781522516514

DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-1650-7

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Gurung, Binod, and Marohang Limbu, eds. Integration of Cloud Technologies in Digitally Networked Classrooms and Learning Communities. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2017. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-1650-7

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The application of emerging technology in educational settings has proven to significantly enhance students’ experiences. These tools provide better learning opportunities and engagement between students and instructors.

Integration of Cloud Technologies in Digitally Networked Classrooms and Learning Communities is a pivotal reference source for the latest scholarly research on the implementation of cloud pedagogies and innovations in classroom environments. Highlighting concepts related to learning engagement, curriculum design, and theoretical perspectives, this book is ideally designed for researchers, practitioners, professionals, and students interested in the use of cloud technology in digital classrooms.

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Front Materials

Title Page

Copyright Page

Advances in Educational Technologies and Instructional Design (AETID) Book Series

Editorial Advisory Board and List of Reviewers

Preface

Chapters

Section 1

Chapter 1

Cloud- and Crowd-Networked Pedagogy: Integrating Cloud Technologies in Networked Classrooms and Learning Communities (pages 1-24)

Marohang Limbu

Our knowledge is constantly shifting from analog literacies to digital literacies, industrial literacies to information societies, paper literacies to screen literacies, and mono-modal literacies to multimodal literacies for which...

Chapter 2

Cloud-Enabled Learning Environment: Optimizing Collaborative Pedagogies, Bridging the Digital Divide, and Enhancing Inclusive Learning (pages 25-41)

Dilli Bikram Edingo

The emergence of cloud computing has changed the ways of thinking, communicating, performing professions, and maintaining sociocultural and community relations. The capacious cloud storage and its amazingly growing facilities and...

Chapter 3

Teaching and Learning in the Cloud: “Anywhere, Anytime.” Anybody, Too?! (pages 42-52)

Anita August

Knowledge is no longer produced exclusively in the traditional class-based learning environment. For twenty-first century learners, digitally networked classrooms are the new social spaces where innovative learning perspectives are...

Chapter 4

Genres in the MOOCology of Writing: Understanding Cloud-Based Learning through a Genre-Activity Analysis (pages 53-68)

Jason Chew Kit Tham

With constant emergence of cloud services and platforms for learning at a global scale, the field of education is in the midst of exploring and adapting to new pedagogical features afforded by these environments. Among the most...

Section 2

Chapter 5

3Ds of Integrating Cloud Technologies into Classrooms: Digital Identity, Competencies, and Self-Efficacy (pages 70-86)

Binod Gurung

Cloud technologies offer many pedagogical possibilities for collaboration, ubiquitous learning, and documenting student engagement activities through learning analytics among others. However, effective integration of cloud...

Chapter 6

Critical Cloud Pedagogies: Using Network Diagrams to Name and Visualize Learning Networks (pages 87-97)

Jack Hennes

Many students will soon enter high-tech workplace environments that utilize cloud technologies and systems, yet they must be critical of the technologies and infrastructures they use on the cloud. More approaches are needed, however...

Chapter 7

Pervasive Pedagogy: Collaborative Cloud-Based Composing Using Google Drive (pages 98-119)

Maury Elizabeth Brown, Daniel L. Hocutt

Cloud-based services designed for educational use, like Google Apps for Education (GAFE), afford deeply collaborative activities across multiple applications. Through primary research, the authors discovered that cloud-based...

Chapter 8

New Media and Technology: How Do They Change the Notions of the Rhetorical Situations? (pages 120-148)

Ramesh Pokharel

New media and technology have an overall impact in our lives including the way we write and read a text, and teach writing. By altering our literacy practices, new media and technology always create a new situation, and require the...

Chapter 9

Translingual and Digital Ecologies: A Cloud Pedagogy for Second Language Classrooms (pages 149-163)

Jialei Jiang

Scholarship in cloud pedagogy has provided intriguing lenses through which researchers enhance pedagogical approaches for digital composition classrooms. However, there is a lack of discussion on how cloud pedagogy could be employed...

Chapter 10

The Digital Third World, Digital Democracy, and Cloud Pedagogy: Learning from Multilingual Bloggers (pages 164-176)

Dhruba Neupane

Cloud computing and Cloud technology has generated teachers' and scholars' attention as a viable alternative to traditional education. However, the discourse and rhetoric around Cloud—computing, education, pedagogy—seems to...

Section 3

Chapter 11

Doctoral Learning and Cognitive Apprenticeship: Technology Tools for Emerging Scholars (pages 178-192)

Katherine Emmons

This chapter discusses the role of cloud technology tools in helping build mentoring relationships in online doctoral programs, drawing on examples and experiences observed in the author's 15 years as a PhD dissertation chair....

Chapter 12

Phases, Scaffolds, and Technology: Cloud-Based Student Collaboration Model for Online and Blended Course Design (pages 193-216)

Julia Parra

With ubiquitous Internet and the related tools, including computational devices and cloud-based technology, has come public access to a world of information literally at one's fingertips. This has led to the increased use of...

Chapter 13

Digital Literacy: Dilemma for EAL Parents (pages 217-229)

Byanjana Sharma

In the context of the practice of digital literacy in western classrooms, this book chapter explores the views of six newly arrived English as an additional language (EAL) parents and four Australian primary government school...

Chapter 14

Scaffolding Agency and Responsibility in Cloud-Based Collaborative Writing (pages 230-241)

Kate Fedewa, Kathryn Houghton

Although most students regularly interact online for social reasons, many are uncomfortable collaborating for academic work, even work utilizing familiar cloud technology. Because collaborative writing in digital spaces is becoming...

Chapter 15

Using the Hybrid Interactive Rhetorical Engagement (H.I.R.E.) Metrics to Analyze the Effectiveness of E-Learning Websites (pages 242-260)

Yowei Kang

The rapid development of Web-based learning technologies has become a global phenomenon that affects higher education institutions. Both developing and developed countries are eager to take advantage of the multi-modal and...

Chapter 16

Challenges in Using Cloud Technology for Promoting Learner Autonomy in a Spanish Language Course: Reshaping Pedagogical Design (pages 261-290)

Jaya Kannan, Pilar Munday

In a digitally networked classroom, the learner connects with peers, instructors, and open resources, be they human experts or online resources in non-linear combinations. As a result, the learner must navigate a complex web of...

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