Transformative Learning Through Engagement: Student Affairs Practice as Experiential Pedagogy

From Pedagogy to Practice: Adventures in Student Engagement.

Moving Through MOOCS: Pedagogy, Learning Design and Patterns of Engagement

Massive open online courses (MOOCs) are part of the lifelong learning experience of people worldwide. Many of these learners participate fully. However, the high levels of dropout on most of these courses are a cause for concern. Previous studies have suggested that there are patterns of engagement within MOOCs that vary according to the pedagogy employed. The current paper builds on this work ...

Fostering Meaningful Student Learning Through Constructivist Pedagogy and Technology Integration

While national statistics cite a remarkable improvement in technology tools and access to the Internet in most schools across the nation, many teachers are not integrating these tools into their instruction in ways that support and maximize student learning. Additionally, many teachers entering the workforce are far more likely to use computers for personal purposes rather than in the classroom...

A New Interactive Whiteboard Pedagogy through Transformative Personal Development

The chapter aims to identify and describe the professional development critical success factors that underpin the successful implementation of digital interactive whiteboard technologies. It draws heavily on in-depth, government-commissioned evaluations of IWB implementation in England (Somekh et al., 2007) and Scotland (Pearson et al., 2004) in which findings derived from the analysis of digit...

e-Learning and Action Research as Transformative Practice

Recent Internet developments and advances in networking have encouraged students' collaboration with other students and instructors, increased students' access to experts, and provided an array of learning resources. Despite the evident potentiality and dynamism of these emerging technologies, however, studies indicate that while teachers in higher education are making use of e-mail and Web res...