Contemporary Technologies in Education Maximizing Student Engagement, Motivation, and Learning /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Adesope, Olusola O. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Rud, A.G (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Educational technology.; Educational psychology.; Education-Psychology.; Mass media.; Communication.; Educational Technology.; Educational Psychology.; Technology and Digital Education.; Media Sociology.

This edited volume provides a critical discussion of theoretical, methodological, and practical developments of contemporary forms of educational technologies. Specifically, the book discusses the use of contemporary technologies such as the Flipped Classroom (FC), Massive Open Online Course (MOOC),...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1. Maximizing the Affordances of Contemporary Technologies in Education: Promise and Possibilities
• Chapter 2. Improving Science Education through Developing Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge in Teachers
• Chapter 3. Toward Understanding the Practice and Potential of Educational Technologies on Our Campuses: Should We Be Skeptics First?
• Chapter 4. Promoting engagement through participatory social practices in next generation social media contexts
• Chapter 5. Signaling in Disciplinarily-Integrated Games: Challenges in Integrating Proven Cognitive Scaffolds within Game Mechanics to Promote Representational Competence
• Chapter 6. Cognitive Tools for Scaffolding Argumentation
• Chapter 7. Learning Analytics: Using Data-Informed Decision-Making to Improve Teaching and Learning
• Chapter 8. Enhancing Self-Regulated Learning for Information Problem Solving with Ambient Big Data Gathered by nStudy
• Chapter 9. Project Based Learning Progressions: Identifying the Nodes of learning in a Project Based Environment
• Chapter 10. MOOCS and the Future of Higher Education
• Chapter 11. Just Posting in the Same Place: Confronting the Paucity of Collaborative Behavior in U.S., K-12 Wikis. .