"This book explains how digital environments can easily become familiar and beneficial for educational and professional development, with the implementation of games into various aspects of our environment"--Provided by publisher.

"This book examines the potential of games and simulations in online learning, and how the future could look as developers learn to use the emerging capabilities of the Semantic Web. It explores how the Semantic Web will impact education and how games and simulations can evolve to become robust...

1. Games and simulations in training : factors to consider when designing for adult learners / Courtney Uram, Diane Wilcox, Jane Thall -- 2. Explaining the educational power of games / Timo Lainema, Eeli Saarinen -- 3. Educational simulations : learning from the past and ensuring success in the...

Online education continues to grow exponentially, and the majority of universities now offer online courses. However, the unprecedented explosion of online learning courses has resulted in increased demands for online teachers, and regular classroom teachers are often asked to teach in an online...

Successful use of information and communication technologies depends on usable designs that do not require expensive training, accommodate the needs of diverse users and are low cost. There is a growing demand and increasing pressure for adopting innovative approaches to the design and delivery...

This book explores the role of information seeking and retrieval in the development of information systems to support personalized and autonomous learning by introducing key concepts from information science.

This book bridges a current gap in e-learning literature through focus on the study and application of human computer interaction principles in the design of online education in order to offer students the optimal learning experience. This advanced publication gives insight into the most...

1. Back to the future / Nada Dabbagh, Rick Reo -- 2. Understanding Web 2.0 and its implications for e-learning / Tony Bates -- 3. Pedagogy 2.0 / Catherine McLoughlin, Mark Lee -- 4. Learner-generated contexts / Rose Luckin, Wilma Clark, Fred Garnett, Andrew Whitworth, Jon Akass, John Cook, Peter...

"This book provides the latest information about cloud development and cloud applications in teaching and learning, including empirical research findings in these areas for professionals and researchers working in the field of e-learning who want to implement teaching and learning with cloud...

This book reports on the most recent advances in agent technologies for distributed learning. Chapters are devoted to the various aspects of intelligent software agents in distributed learning, including the methodological and technical issues on where and how intelligent agents can contribute...