Emerging Technologies in Virtual Learning Environments

Emerging Technologies in Virtual Learning Environments
Author: Becnel, Kim
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 348
Release: 2019-06-28
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1522579885

The emergent phenomena of virtual reality, augmented reality, and mixed reality is having an impact on ways people communicate with technology and with each other. Schools and higher education institutions are embracing these emerging technologies and implementing them at a rapid pace. The challenge, however, is to identify well-defined problems where these innovative technologies can support successful solutions and subsequently determine the efficacy of effective virtual learning environments. Emerging Technologies in Virtual Learning Environments is an essential scholarly research publication that provides a deeper look into 3D virtual environments and how they can be developed and applied for the benefit of student learning and teacher training. This book features a wide range of topics in the areas of science, technology, engineering, arts, and math to ensure a blend of both science and humanities research. Therefore, it is ideal for curriculum developers, instructional designers, teachers, school administrators, higher education faculty, professionals, researchers, and students studying across all academic disciplines.

Emerging Technologies for Next Generation Learning Spaces

Emerging Technologies for Next Generation Learning Spaces
Author: Bosede Iyiade Edwards
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 74
Release: 2021-08-07
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9811635218

This book discusses the development of the next generation learning spaces with emerging technologies. These spaces result from the combined needs of classroom stakeholders, such as instructors and learners, with classroom elements, such as tools and technologies, pedagogy and content. The book presents discussions and studies on issues, possibilities and implications of these changes for next generation education. Novel ideas, and studies on these all-encompassing, blended roles of technologies in next generation learning spaces are clearly presented. Suggestions on how the benefits they offer can be maximized are also discussed. Engaging learning technologies have remained central in education for assisting instructors to teach and learners to learn, more effectively. However, recent technological growth is creating a system in which previous divides between key classroom concepts and stakeholders are getting progressively blurred. This is giving rise to next generation learning spaces where elements and stakeholders are blended into one. The book addresses the future of learning environments based on these perspectives.

Virtual Immersive and 3D Learning Spaces: Emerging Technologies and Trends

Virtual Immersive and 3D Learning Spaces: Emerging Technologies and Trends
Author: Hai-Jew, Shalin
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 412
Release: 2010-09-30
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1616928271

Virtual Immersive and 3D Learning Spaces: Emerging Technologies helps push the conceptual and applied boundaries of virtual immersive learning. Virtual immersive spaces bring with them plenty of promise, of sensory information-rich learning experiences that will enable a much wider range of experiential learning and training—delivered to computer desktops, augmented reality spaces, digital installations, and mobile projective devices. This work explains how these spaces may be exploited for effective learning in terms of the technologies, pedagogical strategies, and directions.

Emerging Tools and Applications of Virtual Reality in Education

Emerging Tools and Applications of Virtual Reality in Education
Author: Choi, Dong Hwa
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 381
Release: 2016-01-18
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1466698381

Virtual reality is the next frontier of communication. As technology exponentially evolves, so do the ways in which humans interact and depend upon it. It only follows that to educate and stimulate the next generation of industry leaders, one must use the most innovative tools available. By coupling education with the most immersive technology available, teachers may inspire students in exciting new ways. Emerging Tools and Applications of Virtual Reality in Education explores the potential and practical uses of virtual reality in classrooms with a focus on pedagogical and instructional outcomes and strategies. This title features current experiments in the use of augmented reality in teaching and highlights the effects it had on students. The authors also illustrate the use of technology in teaching the humanities, as students well-rounded in the fields of technology and communication are covetable in the workforce. This book will inspire educators, administrators, librarians, students of education, and virtual reality software developers to push the limits of their craft.

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.

Best Practices for Teaching with Emerging Technologies

Best Practices for Teaching with Emerging Technologies
Author: Michelle Pacansky-Brock
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 178
Release: 2013
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0415899389

"Best Practices for Teaching with Emerging Technologies is a practical, easy-to-use guide that provides both 2- and 4-year college educators seeking to refresh or transform their instruction"--

Transforming Future Learning Environments

Transforming Future Learning Environments
Author: Joyce Pittman
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011-08-21
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9781105013447

In this book six big ideas call attention to the importance of learning to use limited educational resources more effectively to transform classrooms and educational experiences for all people. These six ideas can be used to advance research on the role of leadership, emerging technologies and virtual learning in redesigning future schools, classrooms and curriculum. Classrooms must become community-based learning spaces connected to greater societal, economical, political and industrial interests. Educators must learn to use social networking technology to enhance opportunities for learning and educational equity. Emerging technologies can have a reciprocal relationship with teaching rather than being viewed as a competitive or alternative position. The author responds to the question, How are learning needs of future students and educators driving the role of emerging technologies and social media in transforming classrooms into virtual learning environments? Published: January 10, 2012

Technologies and Practices for Constructing Knowledge in Online Environments

Technologies and Practices for Constructing Knowledge in Online Environments
Author: Bernhard Ertl
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 279
Release: 2010-01-01
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1615209379

Learning scenarios have benefited greatly from technology through tools such as Internet collaboration, information access, and social networking. However, it is not technology itself that provides the learning; it is also dependent on the different environmental factors and how those factors such as teaching strategies, instructional methods, and technology based instruction comprise the learning environment and knowledge acquisition. Technologies and Practices for Constructing Knowledge in Online Environments: Advancements in Learning discusses how aspects of technology can facilitate and provide advancements in e-collaborative knowledge construction. This reference collection gives an impression about scenarios of e-collaborative knowledge construction and the technology applied in these scenarios while focusing on technologies that enable collaborative knowledge construction processes and how they can be framed to support e-collaborative knowledge construction.

Advancing Educational Research With Emerging Technology

Advancing Educational Research With Emerging Technology
Author: Kennedy, Eugene
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 315
Release: 2019-11-29
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1799811751

Advances in technology and media have fundamentally changed the way people perceive research, how research studies are conducted, and the ways data are analyzed/how the findings are presented. Emerging internet-enabled technological tools have enhanced and transformed research in education and the way educators must adapt to conduct future studies. Advancing Educational Research With Emerging Technology provides innovative insights into cutting-edge and long-standing digital tools in educational research and addresses theoretical, methodological, and ethical dimensions in doing research in the digital world. The content within this publication examines such topics as computational linguistics, individualized learning, and mobile technologies. The design of this publication is suited for students, professors, higher education faculty, deans, academicians, researchers, and practitioners looking to expand their research through the use of a broad range of digital tools and resources.