Contemporary Technologies in Education

Olusola Adesope is Associate Professor and Coordinator of the Educational Psychology Program in the Department of Educational Leadership, Sport Studies, Educational/Counseling Psychology at Washington State University, USA.A.G. Rud is Distinguished Professor in the Department of Teaching and Learning at Washington State University, USA.

• Chapter 1. Maximizing the Affordances of Contemporary Technologies in Education: Promise and Possibilities.- Chapter 2. Improving Science Education through Developing Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge in Teachers.- Chapter 3. Toward Understanding the Practice and Potential of Educational Technologies on Our Campuses: Should We Be Skeptics First?.- Chapter 4. Promoting engagement through participatory social practices in next generation social media contexts.- Chapter 5. Signaling in Disciplinarily-Integrated Games: Challenges in Integrating Proven Cognitive Scaffolds within Game Mechanics to Promote Representational Competence.- Chapter 6. Cognitive Tools for Scaffolding Argumentation.- Chapter 7. Learning Analytics: Using Data-Informed Decision-Making to Improve Teaching and Learning.- Chapter 8. Enhancing Self-Regulated Learning for Information Problem Solving with Ambient Big Data Gathered by nStudy.- Chapter 9. Project Based Learning Progressions: Identifying the Nodes oflearning in a Project Based Environment.- Chapter 10. MOOCS and the Future of Higher Education.- Chapter 11. Just Posting in the Same Place: Confronting the Paucity of Collaborative Behavior in U.S., K-12 Wikis.