"This book examines the impact of Common Core State Standards on teaching and learning within elementary classrooms, focusing on the influence that Common Core has on teacher education programs and ho
Researchers and instructors in architecture and other design disciplines present findings on how best to support, though teaching and assessment, the learning of teamworking skills students will need
Contributors from a wide range of humanities and natural and social sciences explore theoretical aspects of indigenous knowledge systems. Their topics include learning and asserting an African indigen
This volume compiles 14 articles by education and other specialists from the US, UK, Mexico, and China, who address community engagement program implementation and service learning, with an emphasis o
The digital age provides ample opportunities for enhanced learning experiences for students; however, it can also present challenges for educators who must adapt to and implement new technologies in t
Educators from North America, Africa, Australia, and South Korea provide 20 chapters detailing strategies and frameworks for promoting 21st-century skills and technology in teaching and learning and t
The 15 contributions in this volume propose frameworks for building pervasive computing systems and address the challenges posed by pervasive communications, context awareness, security, privacy, and
This collection of twenty-eight articles on information and communications technologies showcases current scholarship in online education technology and virtual learning environments. Articles address
This collection of twenty four articles on business development of online educational services showcases current scholarship in the marketing and financing of distance learning programs. The volume is
Researchers in computer science, information technology, and psychology explore interfaces between agent-based systems and education, from perspectives of teaching such systems within and beyond compu
This collection explores the role of knowledge management in organizational learning (OL) processes and the development of innovative products. Three of the papers apply knowledge management principle
This collection of nineteen articles by academic, government and industry experts in information management showcases the latest research in interoperability and standards based informatics. The artic
"This book proposes simulation games supported by the most recent discoveries and advances in theories of learning research, and gears operational decisions toward the development of an integrated sys
Technology is essential for access to learning and development of a knowledge society.Cases on Interactive Technology Environments and Transnational Collaboration: Concerns and Perspectives provides
Thomas (English language, Nagoya U. of Commerce and Business, Japan) and Schmid (English and applied linguistics, U. of Education Heidelberg, Germany) bring together 17 essays by learning technologies
Recent research from Canada is collected here, shedding light on techniques for design and use of educational games and simulations, especially in the area of health-related learning. The papers are b
The 17 papers in this collection propose a component-based architecture for delivering location-based services, a contract negotiation protocol based on dependency relations, an integrated e-newspaper
Intended to bridge the gap between the database and machine learning communities, this guide gathers theoretical and experimental contributions on fuzziness, scalability, and the use of fuzzy methods
The 32 chapters invited for submission to this volume describe different approaches to applying traditional instructional design models to online learning, innovative technology interventions for supp
Computer scientists, software engineers, and other researchers describe recent investigations into how artificial intelligence techniques and concepts as knowledge-based systems, neural networks, fuzz
This handbook presents research on technologies related to assessment in higher education, and discusses assumptions about assessment and learning, race, cultural diversity, and creativity. Many of th
"This book is for academic researchers and engineers who work with distance learning programs and software systems, as well as general users of distance education technologies and methods including co
This guide to building a database of electronic resources within a database concentrates on strategic information systems, with highly technical articles more suited for IT personnel than traditional
This collection of 21 articles addresses the continuing growth of e-learning and other educational projects that use instructional design (ID)techniques dependent on specific design languages and nota
Fourteen contributions describe audio watermarking methods based on spread spectrum, parametric synthesis, correlation detection, chaotic signal, echo hiding, peak point extraction, and time frequency
"This book explores specific challenges, issues, strategies, and solutions that are associated with female leadership in higher education. It includes a variety of emerging evidence-based professional
"This book provides a research-based comprehensive framework for successful recruitment, retention, and support of minority STEM undergraduate majors from rural areas. It also present research for add
"This book contributes to the broadening of the overall body of knowledge regarding the multi-dimensional aspects of web-based technologies in contemporaneous educational contexts, assisting researche
"This book explores node and edge centrality metrics and real-world network graphs, computationally-light vs. computationally-heavy centrality metrics, centrality-based connected dominating sets for c
"This book explores affordability of ICT access in the context of the rapidly growing field of ICT for development. It provides information on selective access to basic web based content, zero-rating
"This book provides insight into the complex motivational experiences of senior secondary students. It is based on cutting-edge research on a longitudinal exploration of motivation and engagement in t
"This book addresses cloud-based development concepts that offer a new way to educate the way we think, share, learn and collaborate inside and outside of the classroom, the impact of cloud computing
"This book explores the current research based on selfies (self-portraiture through on-the-fly imagery and video) and the explicit and implicit messaging from selfies about individuals, groups, and so
"This book explores how the social work profession should be characterized by a reflective equilibrium based theory, the professional experiences being triggered by the values that give the nature of
"This book focuses on the creation of Sliding Mode Technique & Technology (SM T&T) based on some fundamental advantages of Sliding Mode in the Internet for increasing efficiency of managing and contro
