Full Description
This book explores trends in learning and knowledge analytics in open education, as explored in proceedings papers from AECT-LKAOE 2015 International Research Symposium. The chapters investigate various issues surrounding open education in all disciplines, such as learning design in open-ended learning environments, MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses), learning analytics studies and applications, and technology and new media. The chapter authors provide guidance for how to design and develop most effective, efficient, and appealing instruction as well as suggesting learning strategies relevant to the open education era.
Contents
Learning Is a Journey, Not a Destination.- The Impact of Instructional Design: Questions of Conscience.- Using Data Analytics to Drive Performance and Instructional Decision Making.- Learning Analytics: Serving the Learning Process Design and Optimization.- Design of Online Student Orientation with Conceptual and Procedural Scaffolding.- Improve MOOCS' Learning through Peer Feedback How Learners' Learning Improved by Providing and Receiving Feedback?.- Emerging Technology: Instructional Strategies for Nailing Jell-O to a Tree.- Utopian and Dystopian Futures for Learning Technologies.- Open Educational Resources (OER)-based Flipped Classroom Practice in an Undergraduate Course.- Tracking Students' Activities in Serious Games.- Eight Trends Affecting the Field of Instructional Design and Technology: Opportunities and Challenges.- Educational Technologists as Change Agents to Integrate Social Media for Teaching and Learning.- An Instructional Design Model for Information Science.- If Content is King then e3 Instruction is Queen.- Academic Writing, Publishing & Presentations in Educational Technology.- Chinese Scholars' Perspectives Regarding Educational Technology.- Epilogue.
