Learning Environment and Design: Current and Future Impacts

✍ Scribed by Will W.K. Ma, Kar-wai Tong, Wing Bo Anna Tso

• Publisher: Springer Singapore;Springer
• Year: 2020
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 326
• Series: Educational Communications and Technology Yearbook
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This special edition of the Educational Communications and Technology Yearbook Series bears a title of “Learning Environment and Design: Current and Future Impact”. It provides a timely forum to share theoretical and practical insights in both the local and international contexts in response to the fact that new media and technologies have infiltrated and shaped the learning environments from mere physical spaces into multifaceted possibilities, impacting the ways individuals teach and learn. Designs of learning environments to harness technologies appropriately to engage learners better, as well as the roles of learners and educators play in this changing learning environment, are examples of important global issues in the discourse of the contemporary educational developments. Having gathered a diverse collection of research papers written by scholars and practitioners in the fields of education, communication and humanities across Asia, Australasia, Europe and the United States, this book gives readers a cross-cultural background on the developments of technological designs and educational practices, investigating areas in redefining of quality education; online learning and blended learning; new media in education; gamification, AI, and innovative learning technologies. Aimed to catalyze knowledge exchanges and provide fresh views on interdisciplinary research, the book sheds light on how emerging technologies can be adapted in the fields of education and communication, so as to facilitate the current and future designs of learning environments to improve learners’ performances.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-xv
Front Matter ....Pages 1-1
Effective Learning Through Deep Learning, What Matters: Self, Others, Way of Thinking, and/or Design of Learning Environment? (Will W. K. Ma)....Pages 3-17
The Brazil Project: A Continuing Education Partnership (Rik Bair, Beth Teagarden Bair)....Pages 19-26
Optimizing the Functional Values of Practicum in Nurturing Pre-service Early Childhood Teacher Self-efficacies (Eunice Pui-Yu Yim)....Pages 27-47
Metaphor Analysis of International Doctoral Students’ Learning Experiences—A Case Study of Chinese Doctoral Students in Australia (Xing Xu, Hing Wa Sit, Shen Chen)....Pages 49-66
Structural Models of Statistics Learning Within an IT Environment (Ken W. Li, Merrilyn Goos)....Pages 67-89
Front Matter ....Pages 91-91
Effective Scaffolds (Supported by ICT) for Improving Student Skills: Dyslexic Students’ Experiences with Their Peers (Michele Della Ventura)....Pages 93-106
Study on Instructional Designers’ Various Perspectives of Different Learning Modes in Blended Learning (Ying Hui Chan, Wing Sum Cheung)....Pages 107-125
The Adoption of Free and Open Source Software in Teaching and Learning: An Empirical Study of General Education in Chu Hai College of Higher Education (Chenggui Duan, Kwok Fong Lee)....Pages 127-140
Pre-class Learning Strategies of a Flipped Lesson: A Randomized Comparative Study of Student Achievement and Cognitive Load (Ziyan Che, Khe Foon Hew, Chung Kwan Lo)....Pages 141-157
Task Design to Enhance Learners’ Collaboration and Engagement in an Online Chinese Learning Environment (Sijia Guo)....Pages 159-174
Front Matter ....Pages 175-175
Learning in an Age of Participatory Culture: A Review of Informal Learning Through Social Media (Jiahui Du, Yoo Kyung Chang)....Pages 177-193
Advancing Digital and Social Inclusion: Developing Intergenerational Learning Through Digital Creativity Program—A Pilot Case Study (Yun Yi Tan, Nabilah Abd Raman)....Pages 195-212
Motivational Effects of Immersive Media on Adolescents’ Engagement in Cantonese Opera (Lee Cheng, Bo-Wah Leung)....Pages 213-226
The Efficacy of the Mobile Application-Based Mindfulness Mediation on Adjustment of College Students in Hong Kong: A Randomized Controlled Trial (Raymond Chi Fai Chui, Nicolson Yat-Fan Siu, Wai-Man Tsui, Chloe Yuet-Tung Wong)....Pages 227-244
Revolutionising Language Teaching and Learning via Digital Media Innovations (Noble Po Kan Lo)....Pages 245-261
Front Matter ....Pages 263-263
The Influence of Online Gaming Experience and Its Social Components on Gamers’ Mental Health (Chi-Keung Chan, Kwan-Lun Cheung)....Pages 265-279
English Vocabulary Building via Language Learning Apps: Voices from Hong Kong University Students and Teachers (Anna Wing Bo Tso)....Pages 281-291
Algorithms as the New Gatekeepers of Knowledge: Prospects and Challenges Regarding the Use of Artificial Intelligence in Education (Aynur Sarısakaloğlu)....Pages 293-305
AI in Music Education: The Impact of Using Artificial Intelligence (AI) Application to Practise Scales and Arpeggios in a Virtual Learning Environment (Jason Chi Wai Chen)....Pages 307-322
Back Matter ....Pages 323-325

✦ Subjects

Education; Science Education; Education, general; Computers and Education