Advanced Studies in Educational Psychology and Innovative Methodologies: The Key Role of the Digital Issue
A special issue of Behavioral Sciences (ISSN 2076-328X).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 July 2023) | Viewed by 15393
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Although digital technologies (DTs) are becoming increasingly prevalent (and even transparent) in learning processes in formal education, research often does not delve into their real meaning beyond their instrumental role. We use technologies in education because we live in a digital world, and therefore learning about technology is a way of understanding it; furthermore, DTs are important tools that facilitate the development of learning experiences (or allow these experiences to be carried out in contexts or in ways that would otherwise be difficult or impossible to achieve). We know that, from the teachers' perspective, technology stimulates innovation; from the students' perspective, technology is motivating, enables ubiquitous learning and integrates harmoniously into their informal learning spaces. Beyond this, however, research has shed little light on how learning occurs when technology is involved. Questions such as the following remain: how we learn in formal contexts (school, high school, college, university) when learning experiences involve the use of digital technologies? What opportunities do they offer, and what are the limits of technology? What types of learning styles benefit most from the integration of technology, and what cognitive activities are less favoured? What role do digital technologies play in empowering students in terms of self-regulation of learning or metacognition? What distractions do they pose in self-directed learning processes? In this context, this Special Issue aims to present research results that allow us to learn more about the role of the “digital issue” in innovative formal learning, as this knowledge can contribute to better decision making by teachers and educational institutions in planning innovation processes.
Prof. Dr. Juan González-Martínez
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- digital learning
- ICTs
- transmedia learning
- multimodal education
- digital environments
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