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In the landscape of modern education, fostering teacher skills and critical thinking is essential for preparing students to thrive in a complex and informationally overstimulating world. Educators today are tasked with giving students knowledge while cultivating their ability to think critically, solve problems, and engage with diverse perspectives. This requires ongoing professional development for teachers, ensuring they have the tools, strategies, and mindset to encourage inquiry-based learning and intellectual curiosity. By prioritizing the development of these skills in educators, schools can create an environment where both teachers and students are empowered to adapt, innovate, and ad...
With more businesses driven by technological advancements, globalization, and shifting job markets, the need for innovative educational frameworks that equip students with future skills and competencies has become critical. Traditional education models are being challenged by the demand for skills like critical thinking, creativity, emotional intelligence, adaptability, and digital literacy. To prepare students for the future, educational systems must rethink curriculum design and teaching methodologies, integrating both hard and soft skills to create well-rounded individuals who thrive in diverse environments. This shift involves adopting more flexible, interdisciplinary approaches that ble...
This volume is a compilation of selected papers that were presented at the annual conference of the International Council of Educational Media (ICEM) in Tallinn, Estonia, on September 5 - 7, 2018. The book reports on recent interdisciplinary research and innovative practices regarding school-wide implementation of digital innovation and connects it with recent developments in the field of educational media. The key concept is “Digital Turn,” which is understood as a socio-technical transition towards next-generation digital learning ecosystems in education. Although Digital Turn can also be implemented at the classroom or national levels, most of the contributions in this volume take a whole-school perspective on the policies and practices regarding digital innovation, educational media, e-assessment, digital competences of teachers and students as well as learning design and learning analytics.
The Quarterly Review of Distance Education is a rigorously refereed journal publishing articles, research briefs, reviews, and editorials dealing with the theories, research, and practices of distance education. The Quarterly Review publishes articles that utilize various methodologies that permit generalizable results which help guide the practice of the field of distance education in the public and private sectors. The Quarterly Review publishes full-length manuscripts as well as research briefs, editorials, reviews of programs and scholarly works, and columns. The Quarterly Review defines distance education as institutionally-based formal education in which the learning group is separated and interactive technologies are used to unite the learning group.
Active and Transformative Learning in STEAM Disciplines is a unique reference volume for the new student-centric and objectives-oriented learning environment where individual and team learning paths enhance problem solving capabilities.
This book presents new trends to optimize e-Government in various contexts. It aims to highlight new methods and approaches that unveil the potential of data for public services. The book also illustrates how public services can be mathematically modeled with many case studies. Then, algorithms are proposed to optimize their functioning and to better contribute to the general interest, such as education, health care, safety, security, or culture. The book also focuses on protecting citizens' personal data and obtaining their explicit consent. The book is suitable for students and academics aiming to build up their background on the usage of data and algorithms through various techniques, including artificial intelligence. The book is used as a reference book for teaching a graduate course on e-Government, Process Modeling, or Artificial Intelligence. Besides its use in academia, this book is used by civil servants of every domain and citizens who aim to understand the ongoing modernization of public services.
Provides a comprehensive and unique examination of global language learning outside of the formal school setting Authored by a prominent team of international experts in their respective fields, The Handbook of Informal Language Learning is a one-of-a-kind reference work and it is a timely and valuable resource for anyone looking to explore informal language learning outside of a formal education environment. It features a comprehensive collection of cutting edge research areas exploring the cultural and historical cases of informal language learning, along with the growing area of digital language learning, and the future of this relevant field in national development and language education...
Esta obra, fruto de 10 anos de pesquisas orientadas pelos organizadores e se destina prioritariamente aos pesquisadores da área de Educação Mediada por Tecnologias que estão em formação: pós-graduandos e graduandos em fase de desenvolvimento do trabalho de conclusão, em cursos de formação de professores e aos docentes-pesquisadores do campo da Educação. Ela oferece inspiração de possíveis temas e de desenhos metodológicos aplicáveis à esta relevante área de pesquisa, apresenta abrangentes estudos de revisão bibliográfica em temas emergentes, bem como relatos de pesquisas sobre tecnologias digitais aplicadas aos processos de ensino-aprendizagem. As pesquisas abordam educa...
The study of classroom and school learning environments and their effects on students' learning has been going on for more than a century. Past efforts in the study of the learning environment and its determinants have indicated that it plays a major role in improving teaching and learning in primary, secondary and higher education.This book covers various dimensions of the learning environment, its underlying theory, the impact on learning, the curriculum and classroom management. It is organized in such a way as to provide a cross-national and multi-cultural forum for presenting and discussing research findings, as well as development and applications of various techniques and instruments in learning environment research.
Digital Transformation in Higher Education is a pivotal reference through the transformative power of emerging technologies in academia. Addressing the dual nature of technology as both a challenge and an opportunity, this book presents a rich overview of strategies for integrating digital technology-driven advancements.