Educational equipment and technology, computer-aided learning (CAL)

It is hard to deny the ubiquity of web technologies used for educational tools; which have provided significant breakthroughs in learning environments.

Digital and social technologies are changing the education field.

In today's businesses and society, social media continues to play a vital role in the transformation of communication into an interactive dialogue.

Although web-based technologies have greatly influenced our society, only recently has its impact affected educational practices.

Developments in online learning and its design are areas that continue to grow in order to enhance students' learning environments and experiences.

Higher education spaces are undergoing radical transformations in an attempt to respond to the needs of 21st-century learners and a renewed interest in collaboration that spans beyond the walls of departments, colleges, and libraries.

More than ever, emerging technology is assisting individuals with autism in a variety of ways.

As technology is being integrated into educational processes, teachers are searching for new ways to enhance student motivation and learning.

As technology is being integrated into educational processes, teachers are searching for new ways to enhance student motivation and learning.

Learning environments continue to change considerably and is no longer confined to the face-to-face classroom setting.

Involving two or more academic subjects, interdisciplinary studies aim to blend together broad perspectives, knowledge, skills, and epistemology in an educational setting.

The current educational system continues to face challenges in the wake of new technological advancements in our society.

Communications technologies have been continuously integrated into learning and training environments which has revealed the need for a clear understanding of the process.

Educational games facilitate players' experiences, meet desired pedagogical objectives, and allow users to engage in learning while enjoying themselves.

The call to integrate web-based and blended tools into the classroom forces educators and researchers to rethink their assumptions about teaching-and education in general.

As the engineering education shifts away from traditional methods and towards the outcomes-based mastery of science, technology, engineering and math topics, curriculum design must also shift to reflect this new priority.

With its cost efficiency, enabling of collaboration and sharing of resources, and its ability to improve access, cloud computing is likely to play a big role in the classrooms of tomorrow.

Mobile Learning is a new trend in pedagogical communities.

Involving two or more academic subjects, interdisciplinary studies aim to blend together broad perspectives, knowledge, skills, and epistemology in an educational setting.

The current educational system continues to face challenges in the wake of new technological advancements in our society.

Communications technologies have been continuously integrated into learning and training environments which has revealed the need for a clear understanding of the process.

The call to integrate web-based and blended tools into the classroom forces educators and researchers to rethink their assumptions about teaching-and education in general.

Educational games facilitate players' experiences, meet desired pedagogical objectives, and allow users to engage in learning while enjoying themselves.

As the engineering education shifts away from traditional methods and towards the outcomes-based mastery of science, technology, engineering and math topics, curriculum design must also shift to reflect this new priority.

With its cost efficiency, enabling of collaboration and sharing of resources, and its ability to improve access, cloud computing is likely to play a big role in the classrooms of tomorrow.

There is a general notion that adult education literature generally supports the idea that teaching adults should be approached in a different way than teaching children.

Mobile Learning is a new trend in pedagogical communities.

Communication technology provides new opportunities for individuals with special needs, facilitating assistive communication, increasing mobility, offering a different model of engagement, and allowing new forms of exploration.

E-learning plays a significant role in education, and its importance increases day by day.

Technology enhanced learning takes place in many different forms and contexts, including formal and informal settings, individual and collaborative learning, learning in the classroom, at home, at work, and outdoor in real life situations, as well as desktop-based learning and learning by using mobile devices.

While the creation and adoption of new technologies has increased in recent years, the educational sector often limits technology use.

As the field of Information and Communication Technologies rapidly expands, the applications to language learning continue to grow.

While the majority of Internet users reside in industrialized nations, online access in the developing world has risen rapidly in recent years.

Design and development research, which has considerable implications for instructional design, focuses on designing and exploring products, artifacts and models, as well as programs, activity, and curricula.

Although classrooms are thought of as places where skills are learned and knowledge gained, they are also defined by norms and the need to conform.

As the field of distance and online learning continues to grow, it is important to consider the relationship between students and technology and to find the best possible means to deliver computer-aided instruction.

The world of education has changed drastically in recent years, mostly due in part to the new technologies being developed implemented.

In the past, interactivity has often been studied from the perspective of a particular subject area.

This volume draws together all the articles published by the International Journal of Mobile and Blended Learning in its second year of publication (2010).

Though technology is expanding at a rate that is alarming to many skilled laborers concerned for the welfare of their industry and jobs, teachers should feel safe in their position; however, teachers who refuse to adapt to technology will be left behind.