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The aim of this volume entitled Digital Technologies: Sustainable Innovations for improving Teaching and Learning is to contribute in the global discussion on digital technologies as the means to foster sustainable educational innovations for improving the teaching, learning and assessment from K-12 to Higher Education. It compiles papers presented at the CELDA (Cognition and Exploratory Learning in the Digital Age) conference, which has as its goal continuing to address these challenges and promote the effective use of new tools and technologies to support teaching, learning and assessment.  The book consists of four parts and showcases how emerging educational technologies and innovative practices have been used to address core global educational challenges; spanning from rethinking and transforming learning environments across educational contexts to effectively cultivating students' competences for the digital smart society of the future. The book comprisesPart I: Transforming the Learning Environment; Part II: Enriching student learning experiences; Part III: Measuring and Assessing Teaching and Learning with Educational Data Analytics; Part IV: Cultivating student competences for the digital Smart society.  It targets researchers and research students, educational professional practitioners (including teachers, educators and education leaders) as well as education policy makers, who are interested in keeping up-to-date on the global development in this field.

This book presents the systematic evolution of digitized education: trends, advances, challenges encountered and their solutions toward the use of advanced technologies. The book mainly covers variety of areas such as blended learning in modern education, flipped classroom, ICT-based education, digital transformation of education. Explosion of information and communication technologies has transformed the way we live, learn, work and socialize. This heavy intervention of technologies in the modern world has triggered us to think how we engage and interact with each other and how we make use of these digital tools and communications channels. And consequent upon which societies are transforming into digitized education where datafication, platformization and algorithmic governance are a common vocabulary.

The way students learn changes when they have access to digital tools. The Digital Classroom demonstrates that using technology to enhance students' learning is not dependent on a specific learning management system or software - it is about changing the pedagogy with the help of an arsenal of useful tools and methods. This practical book introduces easy to use methods to all teachers in digital classrooms with the intention to make it simple, accessible, and achievable for everyone. It is not only about the tools, and the how and why, but also about changing the pedagogy making the learning more relevant to the students. When you open the classroom to the rest of the world, the teacher becomes more important than ever. Topics in the book include: Technology and deeper learning Social media in the global classroom Building a personal learning network The flipped classroom and cooperative learning The use of iPads in primary and middle school Teaching with videogames Special education Digital citizenship Digital tools can play a key role in making learning happen and what the teachers know about the use of technology is key. The Digital Classroom will be of great interest to teachers and trainee teachers who wish to develop their digital competency by using the book as part of their professional learning.

Bringing together the research of leading international scholars in the field of digital learning, Designing Effective Digital Learning Environments discusses cutting-edge advancements in digital technology and presents an evidence-informed summary of best practices for effective design principles and implementation within educational settings. Readers will benefit from a synthesis of research evidence from previous meta-analyses on how to design digital environments that support learning, motivation, and collaboration. Divided into eight thematic parts, chapters unpack: An introduction to the design of digital learning environments Learning with multimedia, with particular emphasis on digital reading comprehension environments and GeoGebra software Digital videos for learning, including dynamic visualizations, instructional videos, and eye movement modeling examples Simulated realities, including learning with pedagogical agents and immersive virtual reality environments Game-based and sensor-based learning in digital environments Digital learning in social contexts, including a discussion of CSCL, social media, and audience response systems Design of digital classrooms, including flipped classroom approaches and synchronous online learning A concluding section discussing the efficacy and design of digital learning environments This edited volume is an essential read for any scholar, researcher, Ph.D., or Masters student working in the field of digital learning.

Features vivid examples of the issues and concerns raised by higher education staff involved in the design and implementation of problem-based learning online and the solutions made possible through creative, critical pedagogies, moving beyond Bloom's Taxonomy and linear, content-driven models. Provides pragmatic guidance for ensuring the pedagogic fit of online problem-based learning to higher education courses and the overall challenges of managing change. Prompts readers to reflect on the teaching and learning practices within their disciplines, and to focus on the models of problem-based learning that would be most effective for them.

The criticisms leveled at online education during the Covid-19 pandemic revealed not only a lack of understanding about how educational technology can be deployed effectively, but a lack of imagination. In this refreshing and insightful volume, Martin Weller provides new ways of thinking about educational technology through a wide range of metaphors. By using metaphors as a mental model, Weller enables educators to move beyond pragmatic concerns into more imaginative and playful uses of technology and to critically examine the appropriate implementation and adoption of ed tech.