Technology enhanced learning and cognition / edited by Itiel E. Dror.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dror, Itiel E.

Series:

Benjamins current topics ; v. 27.

Benjamins current topics, 1874-0081 ; v. 27

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Educational technology.

Learning, Psychology of.

Education--Effect of technological innovations on.

Education.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (276 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., c2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The use of technology in learning has increased dramatically. Training and education is now utilizing and almost integrated with the World Wide Web, podcasts, mobile and distant learning, interactive videos, serious games, and a whole range of e-learning. However, has such technology enhanced learning been effective? And how can it better serve training and education?E-learning must be 'brain friendly', so it optimizes learning to the cognitive architecture of the learners. If technology enhanced learning promotes the formation of effective mental representations and works with the human cognitive system, then the learners will not only be able to acquire information more efficiently, but they will also remember it better and use it. Technology should not be the driving force in shaping e-learning, but rather how that technology can better serve the cognitive system.This volume, originally published as a special issue of Pragmatics & Cognition 16:2 (2008) and partly in Pragmatics & Cognition 17:1 (2009), explores the research frontiers in cognition and learning technology. It provides important theoretical insights into these issues, as well as very practical implications of how to make e-learning more brain friendly and effective.

Contents:

Brain friendly technology: what is it? and why do we need it? / Itiel E. Dror

Fostering general transfer with specific simulations / Ji Y. Son and Robert L. Goldstone

Attention management for dynamic and adaptive scaffolding / Inge Molenaar and Claudia Roda

Social, usability, and pedagogical factors influencing students' learning : experiences with wikis and blogs / Shailey Minocha and Dave Roberts

Software-realized inquiry support for cultivating a disciplinary stance / Iris Tabak and Brian J. Reiser

Perceptual learning and the technology of expertise: studies in fraction learning and algebra / Philip J. Kellman ... [et al.]

On foundations of technological support for addressing challenges facing design-based science learning / Swaroop S. Vattam and Janet L. Kolodner.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612976889

9781282976887

1282976885

9789027287458

9027287457

OCLC:

703432316