Higher Education for All. From Challenges to Novel Technology-Enhanced Solutions

Alexandra I. CristeaEducation
Higher Education for All. From Challenges to Novel Technology-Enhanced Solutions

Author: Alexandra I. Cristea

Publisher: Springer

ISBN: 9783319979342

Category: Education

Page: 207

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This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the Researcher Links Workshop: Higher Education for All, held in Maceió, Brazil, in March 2017. The 12 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 31 submissions. The papers deal with a large spectrum of topics, including higher education, technology-enhanced solutions, user modelling, user grouping, gamification, educational games, MOOCs, e-learning, open educational resources, collaborative learning, student modelling, serious games, language analysis.

Higher Education for All

Alexandra Ioana CristeaComputer-assisted instruction
Higher Education for All

Author: Alexandra Ioana Cristea

Publisher:

ISBN: 3319979353

Category: Computer-assisted instruction

Page: 207

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This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the Researcher Links Workshop: Higher Education for All, held in Maceió, Brazil, in March 2017. The 12 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 31 submissions. The papers deal with a large spectrum of topics, including higher education, technology-enhanced solutions, user modelling, user grouping, gamification, educational games, MOOCs, e-learning, open educational resources, collaborative learning, student modelling, serious games, language analysis.

Handbook of Research on the Influence and Effectiveness of Gamification in Education

Bernardes, OscarEducation
Handbook of Research on the Influence and Effectiveness of Gamification in Education

Author: Bernardes, Oscar

Publisher: IGI Global

ISBN: 9781668442883

Category: Education

Page: 869

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Gamification is an increasingly popular technology that has been utilized across a number of fields such as business, medicine, and education. As education continues to turn toward online teaching and learning, gamification is one of many new technologies that have been proven to assist educators in providing holistic and effective instruction. Additional research is required to ensure this technology is utilized appropriately within the classroom. The Handbook of Research on the Influence and Effectiveness of Gamification in Education considers the importance of gamification in the current learning environment and discusses the best practices, opportunities, and challenges of this innovative technology within an educational setting. Covering a wide range of critical topics such as engagement, serious games, and escape rooms, this major reference work is essential for policymakers, academicians, administrators, scholars, researchers, practitioners, instructors, and students.

Learning in the Age of Digital and Green Transition

Michael E. AuerTechnology & Engineering
Learning in the Age of Digital and Green Transition

Author: Michael E. Auer

Publisher: Springer Nature

ISBN: 9783031261909

Category: Technology & Engineering

Page: 1085

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We are currently witnessing a significant transformation in the development of education on all levels and especially in post-secondary education. To face these challenges, higher education must find innovative ways to quickly respond to these new needs. These were the aims connected with the 25th International Conference on Interactive Collaborative Learning (ICL2022), which was held in Vienna, Austria, from September 27 to 30, 2022. Since its beginning in 1998, this conference is devoted to new approaches in learning with a focus on collaborative learning in higher education. This book contains papers in the fields of: • New Learning Models and Applications• Project-Based Learning• Engineering Pedagogy Education• Research in Engineering Pedagogy• Teaching Best Practices• Real World Experiences• Academia-Industry Partnerships• Trends in Master and Doctoral Research. Interested readership includes policymakers, academics, educators, researchers in pedagogy and learning theory, school teachers, the learning industry, further and continuing education lecturers, etc.

Intelligent Computing

Kohei AraiTechnology & Engineering
Intelligent Computing

Author: Kohei Arai

Publisher: Springer Nature

ISBN: 9783030801298

Category: Technology & Engineering

Page: 1095

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This book is a comprehensive collection of chapters focusing on the core areas of computing and their further applications in the real world. Each chapter is a paper presented at the Computing Conference 2021 held on 15-16 July 2021. Computing 2021 attracted a total of 638 submissions which underwent a double-blind peer review process. Of those 638 submissions, 235 submissions have been selected to be included in this book. The goal of this conference is to give a platform to researchers with fundamental contributions and to be a premier venue for academic and industry practitioners to share new ideas and development experiences. We hope that readers find this volume interesting and valuable as it provides the state-of-the-art intelligent methods and techniques for solving real-world problems. We also expect that the conference and its publications is a trigger for further related research and technology improvements in this important subject.

Virtual and Augmented Reality, Simulation and Serious Games for Education

Yiyu CaiTechnology & Engineering
Virtual and Augmented Reality, Simulation and Serious Games for Education

Author: Yiyu Cai

Publisher: Springer Nature

ISBN: 9789811613616

Category: Technology & Engineering

Page: 188

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This book introduces state-of-the-art research on virtual reality, simulation and serious games for education and its chapters presented the best papers from the 4th Asia-Europe Symposium on Simulation and Serious Games (4th AESSSG) held in Turku, Finland, December 2018. The chapters of the book present a multi-facet view on different approaches to deal with challenges that surround the uptake of educational applications of virtual reality, simulations and serious games in school practices. The different approaches highlight challenges and potential solutions and provide future directions for virtual reality, simulation and serious games research, for the design of learning material and for implementation in classrooms. By doing so, the book is a useful resource for both students and scholars interested in research in this field, for designers of learning material, and for practitioners that want to embrace virtual reality, simulation and/or serious games in their education.

Understanding Video Games

Simon Egenfeldt-NielsenSocial Science
Understanding Video Games

Author: Simon Egenfeldt-Nielsen

Publisher: Routledge

ISBN: 9780429777042

Category: Social Science

Page: 440

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From Pong to virtual reality, Understanding Video Games, 4th Edition, takes video game studies into the next decade of the twenty-first century, highlighting changes in the area, including mobile, social, and casual gaming. In this new edition of the pioneering text students learn to assess the major theories used to analyze games, such as ludology and narratology, and gain familiarity with the commercial and organizational aspects of the game industry. Drawing from historical and contemporary examples, the student-friendly text also explores the aesthetics of games, evaluates the cultural position of video games, and considers the potential effects of both violent and "serious" games. Extensively illustrated, and featuring discussion questions, a glossary of key terms, and a detailed video game history timeline, this new edition is an indispensable resource for students, scholars and teachers interested in examining the ways video games continue to reshape entertainment and society.

Engineering Data-Driven Adaptive Trust-based e-Assessment Systems

David BaneresTechnology & Engineering
Engineering Data-Driven Adaptive Trust-based e-Assessment Systems

Author: David Baneres

Publisher: Springer Nature

ISBN: 9783030293260

Category: Technology & Engineering

Page: 327

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This book shares original innovations, research, and lessons learned regarding teaching and technological perspectives on trust-based learning systems. Both perspectives are crucial to enhancing the e-Assessment process. In the course of the book, diverse areas of the computer sciences (machine learning, biometric recognition, cloud computing, and learning analytics, amongst others) are addressed. In addition, current trends, privacy, ethical issues, technological solutions, and adaptive educational models are described to provide readers with a global view on the state of the art, the latest challenges, and potential solutions in e-Assessment. As such, the book offers a valuable reference guide for industry, educational institutions, researchers, developers, and practitioners seeking to promote e-Assessment processes.

Playful Pedagogy in the Pandemic

Emily K. JohnsonEducation
Playful Pedagogy in the Pandemic

Author: Emily K. Johnson

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

ISBN: 9781000640298

Category: Education

Page: 164

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Educational technology adoption is more widespread than ever in the wake of COVID-19, as corporations have commodified student engagement in makeshift packages marketed as gamification. This book seeks to create a space for playful learning in higher education, asserting the need for a pedagogy of care and engagement as well as collaboration with students to help us reimagine education outside of prescriptive educational technology. Virtual learning has turned the course management system into the classroom, and business platforms for streaming video have become awkward substitutions for lecture and discussion. Gaming, once heralded as a potential tool for rethinking our relationship with educational technology, is now inextricably linked in our collective understanding to challenges of misogyny, white supremacy, and the circulation of misinformation. The initial promise of games-based learning seems to linger only as gamification, a form of structuring that creates mechanisms and incentives but limits opportunity for play. As higher education teeters on the brink of unprecedented crisis, this book proclaims the urgent need to find a space for playful learning and to find new inspiration in the platforms and interventions of personal gaming, and in turn restructure the corporatized, surveilling classroom of a gamified world. Through an in-depth analysis of the challenges and opportunities presented by pandemic pedagogy, this book reveals the conditions that led to the widespread failure of adoption of games-based learning and offers a model of hope for a future driven by new tools and platforms for personal, experimental game-making as intellectual inquiry.

Major Challenges Facing Higher Education in the Arab World: Quality Assurance and Relevance

Adnan BadranEducation
Major Challenges Facing Higher Education in the Arab World: Quality Assurance and Relevance

Author: Adnan Badran

Publisher: Springer

ISBN: 9783030037741

Category: Education

Page: 381

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This book focuses on two crucial issues that need to be addressed as a matter of urgency by universities in the Arab region, namely (a) conducting independent assessments of the quality of their teaching, research, administration, governance, and planning; and (b) determining the relevance of their teaching, research, and societal impacts. Although well-established around the world in manufacturing industries and private-sector service industries, including the research and commercialisation arms of the major universities and research institutes, it is only in recent years that quality-assurance (QA) assessments have started to be applied to most aspects education. Several Arab universities are adopting various forms of QA but some variants are little more than bureaucratic “box-ticking” exercises with minimal commitment by staff to the ultimate aim of continuing self-improvement. This book will be of interest to senior management at faculty and departmental level and above in all Arab universities specifically, and more generally in Islamic institutions of higher education. Senior management in other universities, especially in the developing world will benefit from its analyses and recommendations.

Technology-Enhanced and Collaborative Learning

Stewart MartinEducation
Technology-Enhanced and Collaborative Learning

Author: Stewart Martin

Publisher: Routledge

ISBN: 9781351981101

Category: Education

Page: 110

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Technology-enhanced, collaborative and blended learning settings can promote more effective approaches to teaching, learning and assessment when context, agency and individual characteristics are taken into account. This book presents critical insight into the theoretical and practical progress made towards establishing effective, valid and reliable strategies for using and evaluating such approaches, and the challenges and implications of doing so. Topics explored include technology-enhanced learning and student evaluations; student engagement and the perception of teaching quality; instructional design and assessment strategies; blended network and mobile technologies for enriching learning and for monitoring and assessment; and the motivations of students to engage with evaluation. Contributors examine issues such as the underlying variabilities in student evaluation of teaching; the implications of inherited cultural and pedagogic practices for educators using collaborative and blended learning; and the international empirical progress in research to understand and measure interactions between cognition, successful learning, and individual difference in technology-augmented settings.

Handbook of Research on Technology-Centric Strategies for Higher Education Administration

Tripathi, PurnenduEducation
Handbook of Research on Technology-Centric Strategies for Higher Education Administration

Author: Tripathi, Purnendu

Publisher: IGI Global

ISBN: 9781522525493

Category: Education

Page: 501

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Although the advancement of educational technologies is often discussed in a teaching capacity, the administration aspect of this research area is often overlooked. Studying the impact technology has on education administration not only allows us to become familiar with the most current trends and techniques in this area, but also allows us to discover the best way forward in all aspects of education. The Handbook of Research on Technology-Centric Strategies for Higher Education Administration is a pivotal resource covering the latest scholarly information on the application of digital media among aspects of tertiary education administration such as policy, governance, marketing, leadership, and development. Featuring extensive coverage on a broad range of topics and perspectives including virtual training, blogging, and e-learning, this book is ideally designed for policy makers, researchers, and educators seeking current research on administrative-based technology applications within higher education.