Educational Psychology category: 2684 books
ICT in Education in Global Context
Emerging Trends Report 2013-2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2014
This book presents the current advances and emerging trends in digital technologies for learning and education through a number of invited chapters on key research areas. It addresses information and communications technology (ICT) in a global context, reporting on emerging trends and issues in four...
Educational Innovation in Economics and Business V
Business Education for the Changing Workplace
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2006
The workplace is changing drastically these days. As a consequence of the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) revolution, new economic activities emerge, the production process changes, people use different communication tools, and organizational structures are adjusted. All these changes...
by Patrick Alan Danaher, Andy Davies, L. De George-Walker
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2014
Education is generally supposed to help learners to develop new capacities and to be able to apply them in work and life - yet we still know very little about how to build useful capacities. This book investigates nine research projects, exploring why particular capacities are successful in some situations but not in others.
Integrated and Holistic Perspectives on Learning, Instruction and Technology
Understanding Complexity
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2007
One outcome of recent progress in educational technology is strong interest in providing effective support for learning in complex and ill-structured domains. We know how to use technology to promote understanding in simpler domains (e.g., orientation information, procedures with minimal-branching,...
Theorising Personalised Education
Electronically Mediated Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
This book examines the theoretical underpinning of the concept of personalised education and explores the question: What is personalised education in the contemporary higher education sector and how is it implemented? A broad, sophisticated definition of personalised learning has the potential to...
Design Alchemy
Transforming the way we think about learning and teaching
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2014
The promise of online learning--flexible, learner-centered, responsive--was forward-looking and poised to revolutionize education. But too often online learning courses have little room for student engagement and their design does not reflect the potential for interactive and collaborative learning.
Design...
by Arthur Jensen
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2012
Among particular issues discussed in this book are the problems of the cultural disadvantaged, the problems of devising psychological tests which are not biased towards any particular culture, the problems of minority groups of children in education and the relationship between heritability and teachability.
Service Learning as Pedagogy in Early Childhood Education
Theory, Research, and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2016
This book presents the most recent theory, research, and practice on service learning as it relates to early childhood education. It describes several service learning programs, many of which were developed to better prepare pre-service teachers for the challenges they face in today’s early childhood...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
The second edition of the popular Handbook of Self-Regulation of Learning and Performance responds to and incorporates the wealth of new research that the first edition inspired on the subject. At the same time, it advances meaningful perspectives on the scholarship and history that originally shaped...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2009
Studying Virtual Math Teams centers on detailed empirical studies of how students in small online groups make sense of math issues and how they solve problems by making meaning together. These studies are woven together with materials that describe the online environment and pedagogical orientation,...
by Rita Tavares, António Moreira
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2017
This brief will explore how open access repositories are being developed and maintained, in order to provide, disseminate and promote the development of digital educational resources. The main objective is to analyse open access repositories quality criteria and features, and how these can improve...
Young Adolescent Engagement in Learning
Supporting Students through Structure and Community
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2019
Student engagement is fundamental to learning, yet it also constitutes a major and long-standing challenge to educators around the world. This book provides an evidence-based theorisation of features associated with schooling engagement, along with targeted strategies that underpin a continuum of...
Socially-critical Environmental Education in Primary Classrooms
The Dance of Structure and Agency
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2015
The effectiveness of Education for Sustainable Development depends on the ability of schools and teachers to embrace pedagogies that reduce the gap between the rhetoric of education for the environment and the reality of classroom practices. This book responds to the need to better understand the...
Must Inclusion be Special?
Rethinking educational support within a community of provision
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2015
Must Inclusion be Special? examines the discord between special and inclusive education and why this discord can only be resolved when wider inequalities within mainstream education are confronted. It calls for a shift in our approach to provision, from seeing it as a conglomeration of individualised...