State-of-the-Art and Future Directions of Smart Learning

by Yanyan Li (editor), Maiga Chang (editor), Milos Kravcik (editor)

This book provides an archival forum for researchers, academics, practitioners and industry professionals interested and/or engaged in reforming teaching and learning methods by transforming today’s learning environments into smart learning environments. It will facilitate opportunities for discussions and constructive dialogue between various stakeholders on the limitations of current learning environments, the need for reform, innovative uses of emerging pedagogical approaches and technologies, and sharing and promoting best practices, which will lead to the evolution, design and implementation of smart learning environments. The focus of the contributions is on the interplay and fusion of pedagogy and technology to create these new environments. The components of this interplay include but are not limited
learning paradigms, assessment paradigms, social factors, policy emerging technologies, innovative uses of mature technologies, adoption, usability, standards, and emerging/new technological paradigms (open educational resources, cloud computing, etc.)Fusion of pedagogy and transformation of curricula, transformation of teaching behavior, transformation of administration, best practices of infusion, piloting of new ideas.

821 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 26, 2015