Online Courses and ICT in Education: Emerging Practices and Applications

Online Courses and ICT in Education: Emerging Practices and Applications

Lawrence A. Tomei
Release Date: November, 2010|Copyright: © 2011 |Pages: 468
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60960-150-8
ISBN13: 9781609601508|ISBN10: 1609601505|EISBN13: 9781609601522
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Description & Coverage
Description:

Modern education is characterized by continual change, as educators and students engage with new devices, systems, and resources for improving and enhancing teaching and learning.

Online Courses and ICT in Education: Emerging Practices and Applications offers a critical review of current research in technology-supported education, focusing on the development and design of successful education programs, student success factors, and the creation and use of online courses. This work offers solutions, best practices and emerging trends in integrating technology into the traditional and online classroom.

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

  • Computer-based simulation
  • Computer-Mediated Communication
  • Factors influencing students’ decisions to take Web-based courses
  • Online course management systems
  • Online vs. traditional classrooms
  • Self-Regulated Learning
  • Social Web
  • Student success factors
  • Teacher Training
  • Use of technology in urban and rural schools
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This collection of twenty-eight articles on information and communications technologies showcases current scholarship in online education technology and virtual learning environments. Articles address standard academic environments and a variety of specialty professional training applications and individual articles cover such topics as popularization and marketing of web-based courses, increasing female participation in computer-based distance learning, benchmarks for online education standards, distance learning in rural Africa, online delivery of literature and evaluation strategies for online education. ... Contributors are academics from the fields associated with information and communications technologies, education and computer science from a variety of institutions around the world.

– Sci Tech Book News, BookNews.com
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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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