Cases on Innovative and Successful Uses of Digital Resources for Online Learning: (Advances in Mobile and Distance Learning)

Education at all levels will continue to be dominated by technology for the foreseeable future. The rush to respond to the health concerns of the pandemic led to a mass adoption of online learning tools without careful consideration and placement within a conceptual framework that would have occurred prior to adoption in best practice scenarios. Cases on Innovative and Successful Uses of Digital Resources for Online Learning evaluates and describes successful initiatives in remote and hybrid learning during the pandemic disruption to traditional schooling for early childhood through college and job training levels. During the pandemic disruption, remote and hybrid tools were adopted rapidly without the benefit of careful utilization. This text conducts that careful consideration in the past tense. Covering topics such as artificial intelligence, connected learning, and educational simulation games, this book is an excellent reference for educators of K-12 and higher education, school faculty and administrators, researchers, pre-service teachers, policymakers, and academicians.

About the Author :
Pamela Sullivan is an Associate Professor in the Early, Elementary, and Literacy department at James Madison University. She earned her M.Ed.and Ed.S. in school psychology from the University of South Florida and her Ph.D. in reading from the University of Virginia. She has been a teacher for students with varying exceptionalities, a school psychologist, and a reading intervention coordinator in the public schools in the United States and in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. Brian Sullivan is the Education Librarian at James Madison University. He received his MS in Library Science from Indiana University Bloomington in 2009. Prior to entering academic librarianship, he taught high school English, worked in the children’s department of a public library, and worked as an editorial assistant at a small educational publisher. He has written on incorporating technology into humanities courses, intersectional disability studies and feminist pedagogy, embedded librarianship, open education resources. He co-edited the book Handbook of Research on Integrating Technology with Literacy Pedagogy. Jessica Lantz is an Instructional Designer and Assistant Professor in the James Madison University Libraries. She has over a decade of experience working in higher education in instructional design and technology. Her professional degrees include Master of Education and Master of Library Science. Her professional interests include sharing creative ways to integrate technology into higher education and PK-12 classrooms, digital storytelling, and online course design.