Learning Technologies and Globalization

1. Front Matter

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2. Evolution of Learning Technologies: Past, Present, and Future

   • Nada Dabbagh, Angela D. Benson, André Denham, Roberto Joseph, Maha Al-Freih, Ghania Zgheib et al.

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3. Massive Open Online Courses

   • Nada Dabbagh, Angela D. Benson, André Denham, Roberto Joseph, Maha Al-Freih, Ghania Zgheib et al.

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4. Mobile Learning

   • Nada Dabbagh, Angela D. Benson, André Denham, Roberto Joseph, Maha Al-Freih, Ghania Zgheib et al.

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5. Social Media

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6. Augmented Reality

   • Nada Dabbagh, Angela D. Benson, André Denham, Roberto Joseph, Maha Al-Freih, Ghania Zgheib et al.

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7. Game-based Learning

   • Nada Dabbagh, Angela D. Benson, André Denham, Roberto Joseph, Maha Al-Freih, Ghania Zgheib et al.

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8. Conclusion

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9. Back Matter

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This brief describes the evolutionary and global impact of the techno-social transformation on learning technologies in terms of emerging pedagogical frameworks and applications. it provides examples of such applications in higher education, K-12, and the workplace, across the globe. 

The transformation and diffusion of ICT into an ever-present and accessible phenomenon is fundamentally shaping human activity and culture, changing human identity, and redefining globalization. Global activities have widened, intensified, and accelerated as a result of ICT integration generating a new awareness of the world as a techno-social environment.

This emergent global environment is introducing unprecedented socio-economic opportunities; however, it is also bringing new risks and challenges, particularly as this relates to learning technologies, most especially in higher education contexts. 

• ECT
• Educational communications snf technologies
• ICT and pedagogy
• ICT and the classroom
• Information and communication technologies (ICT)
• International perspectives on ICT
• Learning technologies
• MOOC
• Massive online open courses
• Mobile learning
• Networked global environments
• Techno-social transformation
• Web 2.0 and the classroom
• learning and instruction

• Learning Technologies, George Mason University, Fairfax, USA

  Nada Dabbagh

• Educational Leadership,Policy and Technology Studies, TUSCALOOSA, USA

  Angela D. Benson

• Educational Leadership, Policy and Technology Studies, Tuscaloosa, USA

  André Denham, Zhetao Guo

• Teaching, Literacy and Leadership, Hempstead, USA

  Roberto Joseph

• George Mason University, Fairfax, USA

  Maha Al-Freih, Helen Fake

• Educational Technology,University of Balamand, Koura, Lebanon

  Ghania Zgheib

Nada Dabbagh is Professor and Director of the Division of Learning Technologies in the College of Education and Human Development at George Mason University. She holds a Ph.D. in Instructional Systems Design from The Pennsylvania State University and a Master s of Science in Math Methodology and Operations Research from Columbia University. Her research explores the pedagogical ecology of technology mediated learning environments with the goal of understanding the social and cognitive consequences of learning systems design. . Dr. Dabbagh has an extensive publication record including two books and over 80 research papers and book chapters, and has presented her research at over 100 scholarly venues participating as keynote and invited speaker at conferences in Bahrain, Oman, Thailand, Iran, and the U.S.

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