Interactions Between Cognitive Psychology, Educational Technology, and Computing in the Digital Age

摘要

The Internet has been a revolution for the modern information society and many areas of everyday life. Digital learning is emerging and being adopted at an increasing rate. New Internet applications are introduced on an hourly basis and their use for learning and instruction quickly follows the general introduction to the Web community. Advantages for learning and instruction via the Internet include the freedom of learning anywhere and anytime, the flexibility of creating individualized learning environments for self-paced learning as well as individual learning preferences. Other advantages include the possibility for fostering interaction between students and facilitators, and the availability of help and feedback from peer learners and facilitators as well as the accessibility of nearly endless open educational resources (Ifenthaler et al. 2011, 2015; Isaias et al. 2012, 2015; Sampson et al. 2013, 2014; Spector et al. 2010).