Contemporary Technologies in Education

Chapter 1. Maximizing the Affordances of Contemporary Technologies in Education: Promise and PossibilitiesChapter 2. Improving Science Education through Developing Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge in TeachersChapter 3. Toward Understanding the Practice and Potential of Educational Technologies on Our Campuses: Should We Be Skeptics First?Chapter 4. Promoting engagement through participatory social practices in next generation social media contextsChapter 5. Signaling in Disciplinarily-Integrated Games: Challenges in Integrating Proven Cognitive Scaffolds within Game Mechanics to Promote Representational CompetenceChapter 6. Cognitive Tools for Scaffolding ArgumentationChapter 7. Learning Analytics: Using Data-Informed Decision-Making to Improve Teaching and LearningChapter 8. Enhancing Self-Regulated Learning for Information Problem Solving with Ambient Big Data Gathered by nStudyChapter 9. Project Based Learning Progressions: Identifying the Nodes of learning in a Project Based EnvironmentChapter 10. MOOCS and the Future of Higher EducationChapter 11. Just Posting in the Same Place: Confronting the Paucity of Collaborative Behavior in U.S., K-12 Wikis

Olusola Adesope is Associate Professor and Coordinator of the Educational Psychology Program in the Department of Educational Leadership, Sport Studies, Educational/Counseling Psychology at Washington State University, USA.
A.G. Rud is Distinguished Professor in the Department of Teaching and Learning at Washington State University, USA.