Principles of Technology Integration and Learning: Symbiotic Relationships for Improving Educational Outcomes

Principles of Technology Integration and Learning explores the fundamental relationship between learning and technology across a variety of integrative and symbiotic areas. Today’s digital tools hold great potential to define and improve educational experiences and outcomes, but the teachers, learners, designers, and educational leaders responsible for their implementation need coherent, evidence-based guidance before the benefits and rewards are fully attainable. This book’s holistic, sustainability-oriented approach offers comprehensive descriptions of and competencies for integrating technology into the kinds of teaching, learning, and assessment initiatives that are common in educational institutions all over the world. Each chapter of the book delivers actionable insights that adapt to the evolving learning landscape, varied learner needs, diverse pedagogical practices, outcome-focused strategies, and a variety of digital tools and learning environments. Teaching faculty and graduate students in learning design, educational technology, educational leadership, and teacher training programs will find detailed, legible demonstrations of the mutually beneficial dynamics between ubiquitous digital technologies and high-quality, needs-based learning.