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Practical Titles for Teaching and Learning

  1. Conducting Educational Design Research

    By Susan McKenney, Thomas Reeves

    Educational design research blends scientific investigation with systematic development and implementation of solutions to educational problems. Empirical investigation is conducted in real learning settings-not laboratories-to craft usable and effective solutions. At the same time, the...

    Published February 23rd 2012 by Routledge

  2. Teaching and Learning in the Digital Age

    By Louise Starkey

    Teaching and Learning in the Digital Age is for all those interested in considering the impact of emerging digital technologies on teaching and learning. It explores the concept of a digital age and perspectives of knowledge, pedagogy and practice within a digital context. By examining teaching...

    Published May 16th 2012 by Routledge

  3. The International Handbook of Collaborative Learning

    Edited by Cindy Hmelo-Silver, Clark Chinn, Carol Chan, Angela O'Donnell

    Series: Educational Psychology Handbook

    Collaborative learning has become an increasingly important part of education, but the research supporting it is distributed across a wide variety of fields including social, cognitive, developmental, and educational psychology, instructional design, the learning sciences, educational technology,...

    Published February 4th 2013 by Routledge

  4. Brilliant Ideas for Using ICT in the Inclusive Classroom

    By Sally McKeown, Angela McGlashon

    Series: David Fulton / Nasen

    Shortisted as ERA Finalist 2013 How can you use ICT to boost the achievement of all your pupils? This practical teachers’ guide will help you to unlock the enormous potential of new technology in order to enhance pupils’ learning, particularly for young people with additional needs. Written by two...

    Published January 11th 2012 by Routledge

  5. Deconstructing Digital Natives

    Young People, Technology, and the New Literacies

    Edited by Michael Thomas

    There have been many attempts to define the generation of students who emerged with the Web and new digital technologies in the early 1990s. The term "digital native" refers to the generation born after 1980, which has grown up in a world where digital technologies and the internet are a normal...

    Published April 3rd 2011 by Routledge

  6. How to Use Technology Effectively in Post-Compulsory Education

    By Alan Clarke

    The use of technology within the lifelong learning sector brings many benefits to learners, teachers and managers. Aimed at trainee and practising teachers, this book contains clear, practical guidance on how to use technology and e-learning effectively to enhance all aspects of teaching and...

    Published May 31st 2011 by Routledge

  7. Orchestrating Inquiry Learning

    Edited by Karen Littleton, Eileen Scanlon, Mike Sharples

    There is currently a rapidly growing interest in inquiry learning and an emerging consensus among researchers that, particularly when supported by technology, it can be a significant vehicle for developing higher order thinking skills. Inquiry learning methods also offer learners meaningful and...

    Published December 1st 2011 by Routledge

  8. Using New Web Tools in the Primary Classroom

    A practical guide for enhancing teaching and learning

    By David Barber, Linda Cooper

    How can we ensure we use technology effectively with young children? Using New Web Tools in the Primary Classroom is for all teachers interested in the application of new web-based ICTs to primary teaching. It offers a justification for using Web 2.0 tools and explores tangible ways in which...

    Published November 1st 2011 by Routledge

  9. Developing Inquiry for Learning

    Reflecting Collaborative Ways to Learn How to Learn in Higher Education

    By Peter Ovens, Frances Wells, Patricia Wallis, Cyndy Hawkins

    Developing Inquiry for Learning shows how university tutors can help students to improve their abilities to learn and to become professional inquirers. An increasing proportion of students entering higher education seem to assume that learning is a relatively passive process. This may be the...

    Published June 15th 2011 by Routledge

  10. Learning Futures

    Education, Technology and Social Change

    By Keri Facer

    In the twenty-first century, educators around the world are being told that they need to transform education systems to adapt young people for the challenges of a global digital knowledge economy. Too rarely, however, do we ask whether this future vision is robust, achievable or even desirable,...

    Published March 27th 2011 by Routledge

  11. Learning to Solve Problems

    A Handbook for Designing Problem-Solving Learning Environments

    By David H. Jonassen

    This book provides a comprehensive, up-to-date look at problem solving research and practice over the last fifteen years. The first chapter describes differences in types of problems, individual differences among problem-solvers, as well as the domain and context within which a problem is...

    Published September 6th 2010 by Routledge

  12. New Technologies and Creativity in the Secondary School

    Theory, Issues and Ideas for Developing Creative Learners

    Edited by Andy Connell, Tony Edwards

    What does it mean to teach someone to be creative? How do new technologies support creativity? New Technologies and Creativity in the Secondary School examines what we mean by teaching young people to be creative, and how technology – vital in young people’s lives – can be used to...

    To Be Published December 31st 2013 by Routledge

  13. Online Communication and Collaboration

    A Reader

    Edited by Helen Donelan, Karen Kear, Magnus Ramage

    Communication and collaboration via the Internet has risen to great prominence in recent years, especially with the rise of social networking, Web 2.0 and virtual worlds. Many interesting and worthwhile studies have been conducted on the technology involved and the way it is used and shaped by its...

    Published December 16th 2009 by Routledge

  14. Teaching and Learning with Technology

    Beyond Constructivism

    Edited by Concetta M. Stewart, Catherine C. Schifter, Melissa E. Markaridian Selverian

    Series: Routledge Research in Education

    Today, new media is both augmenting and extending the traditional classroom with a variety of technology-based tools available to both students and faculty, and has created "new" virtual classrooms for anywhere, anytime availability to education. Despite the enormous potential for technology to...

    Published June 7th 2010 by Routledge

  15. A Handbook for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education

    Enhancing Academic Practice, 3rd Edition

    Edited by Heather Fry, Heather Fry, Steve Ketteridge, Steve Ketteridge, Stephanie Marshall, Stephanie Marshall

    The Handbook is sensitive to the competing demands of teaching, research and scholarship, and academic management. Against the contexts, the book focuses on developing professional academic skills for teaching. Dealing with the rapid expansion of the use of technology in higher education and...

    Published August 28th 2008 by Routledge

  16. Constructivist Instruction

    Success or Failure?

    Edited by Sigmund Tobias, Thomas M. Duffy

    Constructivist Instruction: Success or Failure? brings together leading thinkers from both sides of the hotly debated controversy about constructivist approaches to instruction. Although constructivist theories and practice now dominate the fields of the learning sciences, instructional technology,...

    Published March 31st 2009 by Routledge

  17. Harnessing Technology for Every Child Matters and Personalised Learning

    By John Galloway

    This book takes into account three core policies: 'Every Child Matters', 'Personalised Learning', and 'Harnessing Technology', combined they are at the heart of changes to children and young peoples’ experiences of school. Harnessing Technology considers these policies and their interlinked...

    Published November 26th 2008 by David Fulton Publishers

  18. Improving Classroom Learning with ICT

    By Rosamund Sutherland, Susan Robertson, Peter John

    Series: Improving Learning

    Improving Classroom Learning with ICT examines the ways in which ICT can be used in the classroom to enhance teaching and learning in different settings and across different subjects. Weaving together evidence of teachers’ and learners’ experiences of ICT, the authors: explain why the process...

    Published November 20th 2008 by Routledge

  19. Learning, Creating, and Using Knowledge

    Concept Maps as Facilitative Tools in Schools and Corporations, 2nd Edition

    By Joseph D. Novak

    This fully revised and updated edition of Learning, Creating, and Using Knowledge recognizes that the future of economic well being in today's knowledge and information society rests upon the effectiveness of schools and corporations to empower their people to be more effective learners and...

    Published November 23rd 2009 by Routledge