Risks and Opportunities in Using Educational Technologies

Dr Walter Barbieri is a Senior Lecturer in Education at the University of Adelaide, Australia. He coordinates the School of Education’s eLearning Program and teaches a range of undergraduate and postgraduate courses, focusing on the optimal use of technologies in the classroom. Walter’s research interests span the breadth of educational technologies, but are more closely focused on: personalised mobile technologies and their impact on learning and assessment; online engagement; augmented reality and its impact on education.Edward Palmer is Professor of Educational Technologies at the University of Adelaide, Australia. He is interested in how people learn using technology, and how assessment and design drives that learning. Edward is a national award winner in using technology for learning, and is interdisciplinary in his skills, with degrees in engineering, science, medicine and the arts. He has worked in fields ranging from online formative learning approaches in medicine and physics, and focuses on the role technology, narrative and media plays in promoting learning. Edward is currently looking at the role of artificial intelligence in education and is working on virtual reality projects investigating situational awareness and medical training. He aims to improve the way we use technology to learn and train in schools, and in the workplace.

• Introduction.- Raising acceptance.- Learning theories and learning technologies.- Mobile Learning.