Integrating Information & Communications Technologies into the Classroom

✍ Scribed by Lawrence Tomei, Lawrence Tomei

• Publisher: IGI Global
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 377
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Integrating Information & Communications Technologies Into the Classroom promotes state-of-the-art applications of classroom technology for teaching and learning. Teachers, educational researchers, and scholars are offered chapters filled with practical applications of research, practice, and thought-provoking stances on many of the key issues associated with teaching and learning in today s classroom environment. These chapters cover a wide range of instructional technology topics in specific educational areas of business, computer science, information systems, distance learning, and communications education as well as the more general area of teaching and learning with technology. Integrating Information & Communications Technologies Into the Classroom includes topics such as the effects of human factors on Web-based instruction; the impact of gender, politics, culture, and economics on instructional technology; the effects of technology on socialization and group processes; and the barriers, challenges, and successes of technology integration in the classroom are included for review.

✦ Table of Contents

Title Page......Page 2
Copyright Page......Page 3
Table of Contents......Page 4
Preface......Page 8
Section I: Business, Computer Science, and Information Technology Education......Page 14
Ch I: Using " Blended Learning" to Develop Tertiary Students' Skills of Critique......Page 16
Ch II: The Effects of Human Factors on the Use of Web-Based Instruction......Page 34
Ch III: Who's Talking Online II: Revisiting Gender and Online Communications......Page 51
Ch IV: Using a Blended Model to Improve Delivery of Teacher Education Curriculum in Global Settings......Page 66
Ch V: The Genesis, Political, and Economic Sides of the Internet......Page 77
Ch VI: Writing-Across-the-IT/MIS Curriculum......Page 98
Ch VII: Learning IT: Where do Lectures Fit?......Page 114
Ch VIII: Training Sequences and their Effects on Task Performance and User Outcomes......Page 127
Section II: Distance Learning Technology Education......Page 149
Ch IX: Group Process and Trust in Group Discussion......Page 150
Ch X: Task-Orientation Online Discussion: A Practical Model for Student Learning......Page 169
Ch XI: Addressing the Cultural Dimensions of E-Learning: Where to Begin?......Page 182
Ch XII: Project-Based Online Group Collaborative Learning Characteristics......Page 203
Section III: Communications Technology Education......Page 217
Ch XIII: Information Technology Certification: A Student Perspective......Page 218
Ch XIV: Management of Telecommunications Services: A Vital New Content Area and a Course Model for the College of Business......Page 231
Section IV: Teaching and Learning with Technology......Page 248
Ch XV: Mind the Gap!: New 'Literacies' Create New Divides......Page 249
Ch XVI: An Interactive Tool for Teaching and Learning LAN Design......Page 268
Ch XVII: Diffusion of Educational Technology and Education Reform: Examining Perceptual Barriers to Technology Integration......Page 287
Ch XVIII: Perspectives on 21st Century E-Learning in Higher Education......Page 304
Ch XIX: Guiding Our Way: Needs and Motivations of Teachers in Online Learning Modeling Responsive Course Design......Page 322
Ch XX: Quality of Online Learning Applications: Impact on Student Enjoyment, Motivation, and Anxiety......Page 342
About the Authors......Page 362
Index......Page 372