ICT Books

New and Published Books

1. Teaching and Learning in the Digital Age

   By Louise Starkey

   Teaching and Learning in the Digital Age is for all those interested in considering the impact of emerging digital technologies on teaching and learning. It explores the concept of a digital age and perspectives of knowledge, pedagogy and practice within a digital context. By examining teaching...

   Published May 16th 2012 by Routledge
2. Changing Spaces of Education

   New Perspectives on the Nature of Learning

   Edited by Rachel Brooks, Alison Fuller, Johanna Waters

   In today’s modern climate, education and learning take place in multiple and diverse spaces. Increasingly, these spaces are both physical and virtual in nature. Access to and use of information and communication technologies, and the emergence of knowledge-based economies necessitate an...

   Published May 10th 2012 by Routledge
3. Learning and Research in Virtual Worlds

   Edited by Jeremy Hunsinger, Aleks Krotoski

   Virtual worlds are places where humans interact, and as such they can be environments for research and learning. However, they are complex and mutable in ways that more controlled and traditional environments are not. Although computer-mediated, virtual worlds are multifaceted social systems like...

   Published April 22nd 2012 by Routledge
4. Understanding Creative Users of ICTs

   Users as Social Actors

   Edited by David Kurt Herold, Harmeet Sawhney, Leopoldina Fortunati

   The disjuncture between the design intent of the developers of ICTs and the needs of the users has often led to surprising use of new technologies, as users have refused to become mere agents of the designers. Individual users have adopted their own uses of ICTs based on the complex webs of...

   Published February 14th 2012 by Routledge
5. Education Networks

   Power, Wealth, Cyberspace, and the Digital Mind

   By Joel Spring

   Series: Sociocultural, Political, and Historical Studies in Education

   Education Networks is a critical analysis of the emerging intersection among the global power elite, information and communication technology, and schools. Joel Spring documents and examines the economic and political interests and forces —including elite networks, the for-profit education industry...

   Published February 8th 2012 by Routledge
6. Orchestrating Inquiry Learning

   Edited by Karen Littleton, Eileen Scanlon, Mike Sharples

   There is currently a rapidly growing interest in inquiry learning and an emerging consensus among researchers that, particularly when supported by technology, it can be a significant vehicle for developing higher order thinking skills. Inquiry learning methods also offer learners meaningful and...

   Published December 1st 2011 by Routledge
7. Using New Web Tools in the Primary Classroom

   A practical guide for enhancing teaching and learning

   By David Barber, Linda Cooper

   How can we ensure we use technology effectively with young children? Using New Web Tools in the Primary Classroom is for all teachers interested in the application of new web-based ICTs to primary teaching. It offers a justification for using Web 2.0 tools and explores tangible ways in which...

   Published November 1st 2011 by Routledge
8. The Decentring of the Traditional University

   The Future of (Self) Education in Virtually Figured Worlds

   By Russell Francis

   The Decentring of the Traditional University provides a unique perspective on the implications of media change for learning and literacy that allows us to peer into the future of (self) education. Each chapter draws on socio-cultural and activity theory to investigate how resourceful students are...

   Published June 21st 2011 by Routledge
9. Psychology for the Classroom: E-Learning

   By John Woollard

   Series: Psychology for the Classroom

   Psychology for the Classroom: E-Learning is a lively and accessible introduction to the field of technology-supported teaching and learning and the educational psychology associated with those developments. Offering a substantial and useful analysis of e-learning, this practical book includes...

   Published March 13th 2011 by Routledge
10. E-Learning in the 21st Century

    A Framework for Research and Practice, 2nd Edition

    By D. Randy Garrison

    The second edition of E-Learning in the 21st Century provides a coherent, comprehensive, and empirically-based framework for understanding e-learning in higher education. Garrison draws on his decades of experience and extensive research in the field to explore the technological, pedagogical, and...

    Published February 27th 2011 by Routledge