Helen Fake

• Graduate Scholar at George Mason University

High attrition rates in online workforce training and development programs suggest that practitioners continue to struggle to develop relevant learner-centric experiences for their workforce. One strategy to increase learner engagement and make training more relevant is through personalizing learning. While there are several efforts to understand p...

En este estudio, los estudiantes universitarios en una gran universidad pública en los EE. UU. fueron encuestados con respecto a qué tecnologías utilizan con más frecuencia para aprender, qué tecnologías valoran para el aprendizaje y cómo perciben efectividad de la tecnología para respaldar su aprendizaje. Los resultados revelaron que el uso y el v...

A review of the literature reveals there is a gap in the research regarding how students currently perceive PLEs and how they structure their PLEs to support their learning goals. The purpose of this study was to establish an understanding of college students’ perceptions of PLEs and what digital tools are currently being used to structure PLEs in...

With the ubiquitous use of mobile technologies and the increasing demand for just-in-time training, there is a need to prepare and support instructional designers and educators to meet the pedagogical and technological development requirements of their target audience in the most effective and efficient way. This paper reviews the iterative design,...

The aim of this study was to examine college students’ perceptions of social networking in the United States. A secondary purpose was to determine whether differences in gender and age were prevalent. One hundred and twenty eight (N = 128) students were surveyed online. Data showed that social networking was helpful for communication, information g...

A Personal Learning Environment or PLE is described as a process that helps students organize the influx of information and resources that they are faced with on a daily basis into a personalized digital learning space or experience. A PLE is primarily facilitated by cloud-based Web 2.0 technologies and services designed to help students create, or...

Learning Technologies (LT) are defined as a dynamic and emergent aggregation of Web tools, software applications, and mobile technologies that integrate the technological and pedagogical features and affordances of the Internet and its associated services and devices, to facilitate the design, development, delivery, and management of learning (Kits...

This brief describes the evolutionary and global impact of the techno-social transformation on learning technologies in terms of emerging pedagogical frameworks and applications. it provides examples of such applications in higher education, K-12, and the workplace, across the globe. The transformation and diffusion of ICT into an ever-present an...