Springer ICT in Education in Global Context: The Best Practices in K-12 Schools (Lecture Notes in Educational Technology)

Intended to promote the innovative use of technology in education and promote educational advances all over the world, this volume brings together 16 best-practice cases on technology-enhanced educational innovations. Experts from Turkey, Tunisia, Cyprus, Italy, Malaysia, China, India and Finland have contributed to these cases, highlighting the current state-of-the-art in the use of technology in education in their respective counties. Topics include best practices for designing smart classrooms, effective use of tablets and interactive whiteboards, virtual learning environments, digital learning spaces, game-based learning, synchronous cyber classrooms, micro-courses, among others. The book offers an essential resource on emerging technologies and the educational approaches currently being pursued in different countries to foster effective learning. From the Back Cover Intended to promote the innovative use of technology in education and promote educational advances all over the world, this volume brings together 16 best-practice cases on technology-enhanced educational innovations. Experts from Turkey, Tunisia, Cyprus, Italy, Malaysia, China, India and Finland have contributed to these cases, highlighting the current state-of-the-art in the use of technology in education in their respective counties. Topics include best practices for designing smart classrooms, effective use of tablets and interactive whiteboards, virtual learning environments, digital learning spaces, game-based learning, synchronous cyber classrooms, micro-courses, among others. The book offers an essential resource on emerging technologies and the educational approaches currently being pursued in different countries to foster effective learning. About the Author Jinbao Zhang is an Associate Professor, who is a supervisor on the majors of Educational Technology and Science Education in Beijing Normal University. He serves as a committee in the Ministry of Chinese E-Learning Technology Standards, Secretary of expert committees on Teacher Education, Secretary of the Expert Committees on National Science Training, etc. His research focuses on the diffusion of Innovations, the 21st learning, and the development of students’ innovation ability. He has published more than fifty academic articles and participated in around ten educational programs. He has a long-term cooperation with institutions and IT companies such as Microsoft, Intel, CISCO etc. Now he is in charge of the Research Centre of 3D Technology and the development of students’ Creativity in Beijing Normal University. Dr. Junfeng Yang has been an Assistant Professor with the School of Education in Hangzhou Normal University since 2009. He is the author of more than 20 articles in ICT in education. His research interests include ICT in education, smart learning environment, and digital generation of learners. Dr. Yang was a recipient of the best paper awards from International Conference in Smart Learning Environment 2014, and the outstanding service as Technical Manager for 13th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies from IEEE computer society. Dr. Maiga Chang is Associate Professor in the School of Computing Information and Systems at Athabasca University, Canada. His researches mainly focus on mobile learning and ubiquitous learning, museum e-learning, game-based learning, educational robots, learning behaviour analysis, data mining, intelligent agent technology, computational intelligence in e-learning, and mobile healthcare. He is new initiative chair in the executive board of IEEE Technical Committee of Learning Technology (TCLT), executive council member of Chinese Society for Inquiry Learning, co-chair of Asia-Pacific Region Game and Toy Enhanced Learning and Society special interest group (SIG) under the Asia-Pacific Society for Computers in Education (APSCE).  He is editor in chief of International Jo