Contemporary Technologies in Education

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxix

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2. Maximizing the Affordances of Contemporary Technologies in Education: Promises and Possibilities

   • Olusola O. Adesope, A. G. Rud

   Pages 1-15

3. Improving Science Education Through Developing Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge in Teachers

   • Diane Jass Ketelhut

   Pages 17-29

4. Toward Understanding the Practice and Potential of Educational Technologies on Our Campuses: Should We Be Skeptics First?

   • Krista Glazewski

   Pages 31-49

5. Promoting Engagement Through Participatory Social Practices in Next Generation Social Media Contexts

   • Greg Kessler

   Pages 51-66

6. Signaling in Disciplinarily-Integrated Games: Challenges in Integrating Proven Cognitive Scaffolds Within Game Mechanics to Promote Representational Competence

   • Satyugjit S. Virk, Douglas B. Clark

   Pages 67-95

7. Cognitive Tools for Scaffolding Argumentation

   • John Nesbit, Hui Niu, Qing Liu

   Pages 97-117

8. Learning Analytics: Using Data-Informed Decision-Making to Improve Teaching and Learning

   • Alyssa Friend Wise

   Pages 119-143

9. Enhancing Self-Regulated Learning for Information Problem Solving with Ambient Big Data Gathered by nStudy

   • Philip H. Winne

   Pages 145-162

10. Project-Based Learning Progressions: Identifying the Nodes of Learning in a Project-Based Environment

    • Leonard A. Annetta, Richard Lamb, David Vallett, Marina Shapiro

    Pages 163-181

11. Massive Open Online Courses and the Future of Higher Education

    • Leonard J. Waks

    Pages 183-213

12. Just Posting in the Same Place: Confronting the Paucity of Collaborative Behavior in US K-12 Wikis

    • Justin Reich

    Pages 215-240

13. Back Matter

    Pages 241-250

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This edited volume provides a critical discussion of theoretical, methodological, and practical developments of contemporary forms of educational technologies. Specifically, the book discusses the use of contemporary technologies such as the Flipped Classroom (FC), Massive Open Online Course (MOOC), Social Media, Serious Educational Games (SEG), Wikis, innovative learning software tools, and learning analytic approach for making sense of big data. While some of these contemporary educational technologies have been touted as panaceas, researchers and developers have been faced with enormous challenges in enhancing the use of these technologies to arouse student attention and improve persistent motivation, engagement, and learning. Hence, the book examines how contemporary technologies can engender student motivation and result in improved engagement and learning. Each chapter also discusses the road ahead and where appropriate, uses the current trend to predict future affordances of technologies.

• new media
• educational psychology
• computer science
• instructional design
• educational game development
• pedagogy

• College of Education, Washington State University, Pullman, WA, USA

  Olusola O. Adesope, A. G. Rud

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.

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