The influence of technology on the educational system has greatly impacted the creative ways students are now learning. Educators can now enhance their instruction through cutting-edge tools and methodologies that appeal to contemporary students who are already immersed in a technology-rich environment.

Information Communication Technologies for Enhanced Education and Learning: Advanced Applications and Developments represents a unique examination of technology-based design, development, and collaborative tools for the classroom. Covering advanced topics in e-pedagogy, online learning, and virtual instruction, this book contributes high quality research for addressing technological integration in the classroom – a must-have for 21st century academicians, students, educational researchers, and practicing teachers.

Coverage:

The many academic areas covered in this publication include, but are not limited to:

Agent-based laboratory
Collaborative activity
Competent Web dialogues
E-Pedagogy
Gender communication gap
Information Communication Technologies
Innovative educators
Interactive technologies for education and learning
Intersubjectivity
Media and women in technology
Online instructors
Online Learning
Online professional development
Online threaded discussions
PowerPoint presentations
Student Web portfolios
Synchronous hybrid e-learning
Technology Acceptance Model
Virtual high schools

Reviews & Statements

The text offers an examination of web-based portfolios, web-based dialogues, plus an array of interactive asynchronous technologies such as blogs, wikis, podcasts, etc. as well as procedures for assessing online discussion forum participation.

– Lawrence A. Tomei, Robert Morris University, USA

This book evaluates the effectiveness of online learning and virtual instruction at the high school and college level.

– Book News Inc.

The teacher of the future can go a long way in transitioning from old thinking to new thinking by assimilating the novel, cutting edge approaches to integrating e-learning into their own professional training and development profiled in this book. Pick it up and read it!

– Beck Mangin, Early Childhood Professional

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Editor/Author Biographies

Lawrence A. Tomei is a recently retired Professor of Education at Robert Morris University in Pittsburgh PA. Born in Akron, Ohio, he earned a BSBA from the University of Akron (1972) and a Masters of Public Administration and Masters of Education at the University of Oklahoma (1975, 1978). He completed his EdD from USC (1983). Dr. Tomei entered the US Air Force in Fall 1972 and served on active duty until his retirement as a Lieutenant Colonel in 1994. He entered higher education as the Director of Administrative Technology at Duquesne University (1994-1998) and joined its School of Education full-time faculty as Instructional Technology Program Director, providing undergraduate, masters, and doctor programs (1998-2004). Some of his books on instructional technology include: Teaching Digitally: Integrating Technology Into the Classroom (2001), Technology Facade (2002), Taxonomy for the Technology Domain (2005), Integrating Pedagogy and Technology: Improving Teaching and Learning in Higher Education Faculty (2015), Developing a Center for Teaching Excellence: A Higher Education Case Study Using the Integrated Readiness Matrix (2016), and Diverse Teaching Strategies for the Technology-Rich Classroom (2019).

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Associate Editors

Tonya Barrier, University of Texas at Arlington, USA

Dencho Batanov, Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand

David Carbonara, Duquesne University, USA

Martin Crossland, Oklahoma State University, USA

Mary Hricko, Kent State University, USA

Jeffrey Hsu, Fairleigh Dickinson University, USA

Paul Lajbcygier, Monash University, Australia

Stewart Marshall, The University of The West Indies, Barbados

Julie Mariga, Purdue University, USA

Tanya McGill, Murdoch University, Australia

Istvan Mezgar, CIM Research Laboratory, Hungary

Jaideep Motwani, Grand Valley State University, USA

James Pomykalski, Susquehanna University, USA

Timothy Shih, Tamkang University, Taiwan

J. Barrie Thompson, University of Sunderland, UK

Teresa Torres-Coronas, Universitat Rovira Virgili, Tarragona, Spain

Sal Valenti, Universita Politecnica delle Marche, Italy

Editorial Review Board

Rosa Agostinho, Technical University of Lisbon, New Zealand

Sharma Anil, United Arab Emirates University, Al Ain, United Arab Emirates

David A. Banks, University of South Australia, South Australia

Antonio Cartelli, Co-Chair, University of Cassino, Italy

Hassan N. Chehime, University Wisconsin at Madison, USA

Sherry Y. Chen, Brunel University, UK

Susan Conners, Purdue University, USA

Maria Manuela Cunha, IPCA, Portugal

Mel Damodaran, University of Houston – Victoria, USA

Javier Diaz-Carmona, Technological Institute of Celaya, Mexico

Mathew George Eby, Software Engineering & Technology Labs, USA

Brad Eden, University of Nevada, USA

Henry H. Emurian, University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA

Elizabeth Furtado, Universidad de Fortaleza, Brazil

Susan Gebhard, Duquesne University, USA

William Grosky, University of Michigan-Dearborn, USA

Jairo Gutierrez, University of Auckland, New Zealand

Bose Indranil, School of Business, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Mara Linaberger, Duquesne University, USA

Lynda R. Louis, Xavier University of Louisiana, USA

Efrem Mallach, University of Massachusetts, USA

Julie R. Mariga, Purdue University, USA

M.V. Ramakrishna, Monash University, Australia

Nurul Sarkar, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand

Anil Sharma, United Arab Emirates University, United Arab Emirates

R. Subramaniam, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Tzung-I Tang, National Chengchi University, Taiwan

Faye Teer, James Madison University, USA

Ho-Leung Tsoi, Caritas Francis Hsu College, Taiwan

Stu Westin, University of Rhode Island USA

S. Yegneshwar, Infosys, India

Michal Zemlicka, Charles University, Czech Republic