Beyond the Classroom: Emerging Technologies to Enhance Learning

Beyond the Classroom: Emerging Technologies to Enhance Learning
Author: Dr. Syed Hasan Qasim
Publisher: Book Bazooka Publication
Total Pages: 286
Release: 2024-05-30
Genre: Education
ISBN: 8119934253

National Education Policy 2020 states that India is a global leader in information and communication technology and education will play a critical role in this transformation. Technology and education at all levels have a mutually beneficial relationship since technology itself significantly contribute to the enhancement of educational procedures and results.In the field of education, technology is also putting a drastic change and making the way of learning and teaching much easier and more innovative as compare to the olden days. Especially during the time of pandemic, technology played a very crucial role in the field of education. It makes people aware about the technical world. The first education policy of the twenty-first century, National Education Policy 2020 attempts to address the many expanding experimental imperatives facing our nation. In order to create a new system that is in line with the ambitious goals of 21st-century education, including SDG4, while building upon India's traditions and value systems, this policy suggests changing and remodelling every element of the educational structure, including its regulation and governance. The National Education Policy lays particular emphasis on the development of the creative potentiality of each person. One of the endless tasks of the National Educational Technology Forum (NETF) will be to classify imperative technologies grounded on their implicit and estimated timeframe for dislocation, and to periodically present this analysis to MHRD. MHRD will formally identify those technologies whose emergence necessitates reactions from the educational system based on these inputs. Keeping in mind the recommendations of NEP 2020, this book is the attempt to highlight the new emerging technologies of the 21st century which help the teacher and the students to understand the concept and importance of these emerging technologies. This book provides a comprehensive understanding of the emergence and evolution of new technologies in the field of education to enhance learning. It consists of 11 chapters which includes Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning - provide predictive analytics and individualized learning experiences and have the potential to completely transform the education industry. Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality -these two cutting-edge technologies provide immersive and interactive learning experiences and are becoming more and more popular in the educational sector. Data Analytics or Learning Analytics -with its ability to provide insights on student performance, engagement, and learning outcomes, data analytics is becoming more and more significant in the educational field. By analysing data from different sources, educators can identify trends, predict student success, and implement evidence-based strategies to improve teaching and learning. Microlearning and Mobile Learning -they represent a paradigm shift in the Indian educational framework. They align with the national goals of digital India and education for all, promoting a more democratized, flexible, and learner-centric approach to education. Internet of Things (IoT) - often termed as "Smart Education," encompasses a wide array of applications that transcend traditional learning methodologies. It aims to transcend traditional boundaries, enabling a seamless blend of physical and digital learning spaces, which is especially pivotal in a country marked by diverse socio-economic and geographical landscapes. Gamification and Game-Based Learning - with their inclusive and adaptable nature, offer a more personalized and engaging learning experience. This is particularly relevant in a country like India, where digital access and literacy are on the rise, paving the way for digital learning solutions to make a substantial impact. Electronic and interactive textbooks - these digital resources have revolutionized the way educators teach and students learn, offering dynamic content that goes beyond the static pages of traditional textbooks. Active and Collaborative Learning - in the realm of education, active learning is not just a methodology but a paradigm shifts that champions student engagement as the cornerstone of effective learning. This approach, significantly beneficial in the Indian context, challenges students to interact with the material, engage in higher-order thinking, and apply knowledge in varied scenarios. It's an approach that transforms classrooms from silent note-taking environments to vibrant interactive spaces where students question, discuss, and explore subjects deeply. This book examines the current state of these new technologies from several educational perspectives, highlights some of them, and discusses both their established and potential educational benefits. In addition, it provides an in-depth discussion of recent developments and future challenges from many different perspectives. This book is an informative resource for scholars, policymakers and researchers in pedagogy, educational technology, digital learning, communication and education research. The book content equips educators at all levels with essential information required to adapt to emerging technologies in order to improve teaching, student support and learning outcomes. Syed Hasan Qasim

Learners Without Borders

Learners Without Borders
Author: Yong Zhao
Publisher: Corwin Press
Total Pages: 117
Release: 2021-06-30
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1506377386

The future of education centers empowered students in a global learning ecosystem. Despite decades of reform, the traditional borders of education—graduation, curriculum, classrooms, schools—have failed to deliver on the goals of excellence and equity. Despite massive societal changes, education remains controlled by an old mindset. It is time to change that limiting mindset and, more importantly, the ineffective practices in education. To truly serve all learners, future classrooms must remove the boundaries of learning and become student-centered, culturally responsive, and personalized—supportive and equitable environments where each student can direct their own learning and seek multiple pathways to skills and knowledge in a global learning ecosystem. This compelling call for transformative change offers all involved in education Evidence-based arguments that reveal the need to break the traditional borders that limit learning Strategies to personalize learning and remove the confinement of traditional pathways Examples from around the world to create equitable and student-centric learning environments Resources for creating a school learning environment that expands opportunities for personalized learning into the global learning ecosystem It is time to now imagine a different kind of learning, without borders, and to begin the shifts in practice that will result in personalized learning for all students.

How People Learn

How People Learn
Author: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
Total Pages: 386
Release: 2000-08-11
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0309131979

First released in the Spring of 1999, How People Learn has been expanded to show how the theories and insights from the original book can translate into actions and practice, now making a real connection between classroom activities and learning behavior. This edition includes far-reaching suggestions for research that could increase the impact that classroom teaching has on actual learning. Like the original edition, this book offers exciting new research about the mind and the brain that provides answers to a number of compelling questions. When do infants begin to learn? How do experts learn and how is this different from non-experts? What can teachers and schools do-with curricula, classroom settings, and teaching methodsâ€"to help children learn most effectively? New evidence from many branches of science has significantly added to our understanding of what it means to know, from the neural processes that occur during learning to the influence of culture on what people see and absorb. How People Learn examines these findings and their implications for what we teach, how we teach it, and how we assess what our children learn. The book uses exemplary teaching to illustrate how approaches based on what we now know result in in-depth learning. This new knowledge calls into question concepts and practices firmly entrenched in our current education system. Topics include: How learning actually changes the physical structure of the brain. How existing knowledge affects what people notice and how they learn. What the thought processes of experts tell us about how to teach. The amazing learning potential of infants. The relationship of classroom learning and everyday settings of community and workplace. Learning needs and opportunities for teachers. A realistic look at the role of technology in education.

Emerging Technologies for the Classroom

Emerging Technologies for the Classroom
Author: Chrystalla Mouza
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 315
Release: 2012-11-07
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1461446961

This book provides contemporary examples of the ways in which educators can use digital technologies to create effective learning environments that support improved learning and instruction. These examples are guided by multiple conceptual and methodological traditions evolving from the learning sciences and instructional technology communities as well as other communities doing important work on learning technologies. In particular, the book provides examples of technology innovations and the ways in which educators can use them to foster deep understanding, collaboration, creativity, invention, and reflection. Additional examples demonstrate the ways in which emerging mobile and networked technologies can help extend student learning beyond the confines of the classroom wall and support student-directed learning and new media literacies.

Emerging Technologies in Distance Education

Emerging Technologies in Distance Education
Author: George Veletsianos
Publisher: Athabasca University Press
Total Pages: 351
Release: 2010
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1897425767

Highlighted are the pedagogical, organizational, cultural, social, and economic factors that influence the adoption and integration of emerging technologies in distance education. Advice is offered on how educators can launch effective and engaging distance education initiatives, in response to technological advancements, changing mindsets, and economic and organizational pressures.

Autonomous Language Learning with Technology

Autonomous Language Learning with Technology
Author: Chun Lai
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 239
Release: 2017-06-29
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1474240437

This book looks beyond the classroom, and focuses on out-of-class autonomous use of technology for language learning, discussing the theoretical frameworks, key findings and critical issues. The proliferation of digital language learning resources and tools is forcing language education into an era of unprecedented change. The book will stimulate discussions on how to support language learners to construct quality autonomous technology-mediated out-of-class learning experience outside the classroom and raise greater awareness of and research interest in this field. Out-of-class learning constitutes an important context for human development, and active engagement in out-of-class activities is associated with successful language development. With convenient access to expanded resources, venues and learning spaces, today's learners are not as dependent on in-class learning as they used to be. Thus, a deeper understanding of the terrain of out-of-class learning is of increasing significance in the current educational era. Technology is part and parcel of out-of-class language learning, and has been a primary source that learners actively use to construct language learning experience beyond the classroom. Language learners of all ages around the world have been found to actively utilize technological resources to support their language learning beyond formal language learning contexts. Insights into learners' out-of-class autonomous use of technology for language learning are essential to our understanding of out-of-class learning and inform educators on how language learners could be better supported to maximize the educational potentials of technology to construct quality out-of-class learning experience.

Enhancing Learning Through Technology

Enhancing Learning Through Technology
Author: Philip Tsang
Publisher: World Scientific
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2007
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9812772723

This volume provides an up-to-date study of theory and practice on the importance of technology in teaching and learning. The contributions are carefully peer-reviewed from over 100 submissions to the International Conference on Teaching and Learning 2006, held in Hong Kong. Sample Chapter(s). Chapter 1: Faculty Perceptions of ICT Benefits (391 KB). Contents: Faculty Perceptions of ICT Benefits (R Fox et al.); Thinking about Thinking Online (K Downing et al.); Teacher''s Sharing Pedagogical Experiences in a Learning Environment that Supports Self-Regulated Learning (G Dettori et al.); Online Interaction: Trying to Get It Right (L Chow and R Sharman); Crossing Borders: How Cross-Cultural Videoconferencing can Satisfy Course Goals in Dissimilar Subjects (J S Wilkinson & A-L Wang); The Evaluation of Information and Communication Technology Use in Professional Schools (P Gabor & C Ing); Using Technology in Education: The Application of Data Mining (K H Chye et al.); A Comparison of WebCT, Blackboard and Moddle for the Teaching and Learning of Continuing Education Courses (K S Cheung); The Object-Oriented Database Application and the System Architecture of a National Learning Objects Repository for Cyprus (P Pouyioutas et al.); and other papers. Readership: Graduate students, researchers and practitioners involved in the development and education of e-learning.

The Routledge Handbook of Language Learning and Teaching Beyond the Classroom

The Routledge Handbook of Language Learning and Teaching Beyond the Classroom
Author: Hayo Reinders
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 612
Release: 2022-05-30
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1000574636

Informal language learning beyond the classroom plays an important and growing role in language learning and teaching. This Handbook brings together the existing body of research and unites the various disciplines that have explored this area, in order to present the current state of knowledge in one accessible resource. Much of adult learning takes place outside of formal education and for language learning, it is likely that out-of-class experiences play an equally important role. It is therefore surprising that the role of informal language learning has received little attention over the years, with the vast majority of research instead focusing on the classroom. Researchers from a range of backgrounds, however, have started to realise the important contribution of informal language learning, both in its own right, and in its relationship with classroom learning. Studies in the areas of learner autonomy, learning strategies, study abroad, language support, learners’ voices, computer-mediated communication, mobile-assisted language learning, digital gaming, and many others, all add to our understanding of the complex and intersecting ways in which learners construct their own language learning experiences, drawing from a wide range of resources, including materials, teachers, self-study, technology, other learners and native speakers. This Handbook provides a sound and comprehensive basis for researchers and graduate students to build upon in their own research of language learning and teaching beyond the classroom.

Using New Technologies to Enhance Teaching and Learning in History

Using New Technologies to Enhance Teaching and Learning in History
Author: Terry Haydn
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 201
Release: 2013-02-11
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1135121079

Nearly all history teachers are interested in how new technology might be used to improve teaching and learning in history. However, not all history departments have had the time, expertise and guidance which would enable them to fully explore the wide range of ways in which ICT might help them to teach their subject more effectively. This much-needed collection offers practical guidance and examples of the ways in which new technology can enhance pupil engagement in the subject, impact on knowledge retention, get pupils learning outside the history classroom, and help them to work collaboratively using a range of Web 2.0 applications. The chapters, written by experienced practitioners and experts in the field of history education and ICT, explore topics such as: how to design web interactivities for your pupils what can you accomplish with a wiki how to get going in digital video editing what to do with the VLE? making best use of the interactive whiteboard designing effective pupil webquests digital storytelling in history making full use of major history websites using social media. Using New Technologies to Enhance Teaching and Learning in History is essential reading for all trainee, newly qualified and experienced teachers of history. It addresses many of the problems, barriers and dangers which new technology can pose, but it also clearly explains and exemplifies the wide range of ways in which ICT can be used to radically improve the quality of pupils’ experience of learning history.

Enhancing Learning Through Technology: Research On Emerging Technologies And Pedagogies

Enhancing Learning Through Technology: Research On Emerging Technologies And Pedagogies
Author: Reggie Kwan
Publisher: World Scientific
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2008-06-30
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9814471402

This book deals with how technology can enhance learning. It is a collection of contemporary practices and developmental trends for enhancing learning through technology. Researchers in the field of electronic learning (e-learning) share how new technologies can be applied in and out of the classroom, and how contemporary pedagogical practices should be deployed.This book presents the most updated technologies that work hand in hand with current pedagogies to help students learn. The contributors are prominent researchers and practitioners in the field. This book attempts to report all emerging models, techniques, and applications related to learning through technology.