This book presents DIGICOMPASS Junior, a workable framework for global language education in the upper primary years (grades 4–6). It adapts the original DIGICOMPASS for younger learners and shows teachers how to plan inclusive, developmentally appropriate learning that connects languages, cultures, and digital practices. Chapters translate principles into classroom moves—plurilingual practices; intercultural learning; multimodal and digital literacies; personalized pathw...

This book addresses the urgent need for an educational framework that integrates digital multiliteracies with global competence. As technology reshapes how we communicate, learn, and work, educators face the challenge of preparing students not just academically but as informed, ethical participants in a digital and global community. Furthermore, as classrooms become more culturally diverse, the importance of inclusive practices and intercultural competence cannot be overstated. The author ...

What are values? How are they different from attitudes, traits, and specific goals? How do our values influence our behavior, and vice versa? How does our culture and environment impact the relationship between values and behavior? These questions and more are rigorously examined by prominent and emerging scholars in this significant volume Values and Behavior: Taking A Cross Cultural Perspective.Personal values are cognitive representations of abstract, d...

At a time when more and more of what people learn both in formal courses and in everyday life is mediated by technology, Learning Online provides a much-needed guide to different forms and applications of online learning. This book describes how online learning is being used in both K-12 and higher education settings as well as in learning outside of school. Particular online learning technologies, such as MOOCs (massive open online courses), multi-player games, learning analytics...

We are facing like never before extreme challenges in economic, social and environmental.It is driven by accelerating globalization and the speed rate of technological developments in this world.Simultaneously, those forces are providing us with countless new opportunities for human advancement.While the future is uncertain and we cannot envision or speculate about the future, but we need to be prepared and be ready for it.New technologies like artificial in...

This eBook offers a practical look at teaching and learning from the standpoint of a beginning teacher. It explores theories, issues, and strategies for teaching and assessing student learning. It uses the Ontario Curriculum as basis to examine curriculum in general, however the process is applicable to any elementary school curriculum. It will also provide templates for planning lesson and unit materials, as well as assessment tools.

Trust and Human Resource Management: Navigating Human Capital in the Age of Transformation explains why trust has become one of the most practical “must-haves” for managing people today. As work is reshaped by digital platforms, data analytics, and AI tools, employees increasingly experience HR through systems and algorithms as much as through managers. This book shows how trust is built – or damaged – through everyday HR decisions such as hiring, performance evaluation, rewards, ...

Teaching is changing. It is no longer simply about passing on knowledge to the next generation. Teachers in the twenty-first century, in all educational sectors, have to cope with an ever-changing cultural and technological environment. Teaching is now a design science. Like other design professionals – architects, engineers, programmers – teachers have to work out creative and evidence-based ways of improving what they do. Yet teaching is not treated as a design profession.Every d...

How can we ensure educational technology truly supports learning? This book offers a timely, evidence-rich guide for anyone navigating today's fast-changing EdTech landscape. Drawing on cutting-edge research, global case studies, and two decades of field experience, it exposes why so many technologies fail to deliver impact, and shows what it takes to change the system. Readers will discover practical tools such as the Five Es framework for evaluating EdTech, insights from the emerging EdT...

Practical, ready-to-use ELL strategies firmly rooted in the latest researchThis book provides practical strategies and tools for assessing and teaching even the most hard to reach English language learners across the content areas. Syrja offers educators the latest information on working with ELLs (including using formative assessments) and provides a wealth of classroom-tested models and measures. These tools have proven to be effective with ESL students at all levels, including L...

Professor Alusine M. Kanu in Faculty Development Programs: Applications in Teaching and Learning demonstrates instructional competencies of faculty developer, leadership facilitator, organizational developer, media specialist, and academic advisor. This well-thought-out text conducts discussions to promote learning how to learn with methods of study that respect faculties desires to be experts in specialized disciplinary knowledge and specific teaching skills. The intended audienc...

This Element synthesizes the current state of research on organizational learning from performance feedback and develops a new perspective that deals with the influence of multiple goals. In keeping with the centrality of motives in Cyert & March's influential model, this new perspective rests on a foundation of individual level behaviors that are responsive to mechanisms at the organizational and environmental level of analysis. A key aim is to lay out an agenda for a new wave of empirica...