Educational Media and Technology Yearbook: Volume 35, 2010 (Educational Media and Technology Yearbook, 35)

ISBN: 1461425549

Author: Orey, Michael

Condition: New

Product Description This book highlights the latest in educational technology. Here are ideas that are not only intellectually intriguing but also practical and practice-building, inspiring educators to move beyond traditional teaching roles toward learning design. From the Back Cover The evolution of educational technology has seen a shift from hardware and software to tactics and techniques, as the 2010 edition of the Educational Media and Technology Yearbook makes abundantly clear. As in previous years, it offers the reader a snapshot of the moment and a look ahead to issues most likely to shape the immediate future-an array as varied as the use of social networking sites in learning, new collaborations between media specialists and non-teaching school personnel, and the emerging discipline of Human Performance Technology. Here are ideas that are not only intellectually intriguing but also practical and practice-building, inspiring educators using computer technology to move beyond traditional teaching roles toward learning design.Included in the 2010 Yearbook:Salient issues in learning, design, and technology, such as the critical part school leadership plays in instructors acceptance or rejection of technologyNew trends in library and information science, including the role of school library media centers in preventing cyberbullyingThis years leadership profiles: Jerrold Kemp, author of Designing Effective Instruction; W. Michael Reed, accomplished, dedicated, and recognized educator in instructional technologyA worldwide directory of current professional associations and organizations in learning design, technology, information, and library scienceUp-to-date listings of graduate program in these fields, rated using a variety of criteriaSpecial mediagraphy section featuring journals, ERIC documents, and media-related publications in specialized areas, including distance education, simulation/virtual reality, artificial intelligence, special education, and professional developmentAcademics in learning design and technology, and information and library science will welcome the latest edition of the Educational Media and Technology Yearbook as a reference, idea book, and a panoramic study of where we are now.