Samaa Haniya

Pepperdine University · The Graduate School of Education and Psychology

In recent days, technology has boomed beyond imagination and infiltrated every aspect of our lives, from medicine to engineering, education, business, and much more. Despite this technology boom, there is still a barrier between those with access to adequate technology devices, tools, and resources and those without, creating the digital divide phe...

Feedback is one of the seven affordances of the new learning theory developed by Cope and Kalantzis, and is significant to any learning environment, even more specifically in online learning environments. In the past, feedback was time-consuming, difficult to do in an anonymous manner, and required facilitation by the instructor. Recent innovations...

Despite many recent technological advances, the convenience of lecture-based teaching has remained the norm in higher education settings, including medical education. Following this one-size-fits-all approach does not prepare medical students for real life clinical situations as they enter the healthcare arena. The explosion of medical information...

With the rapid growth of the global movement and technological advancements, learners are becoming more diverse than ever before. Diverse learners come from different backgrounds, including cultures, race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, gender, language, or personality traits. These differences even increase in lecture halls and large-scale learn...

Veterinary medical students need multiple thinking strategies, particularly critical thinking. We used a multimedia, peer review learning management system (CGScholar) to introduce a series of complex, realistic, case-based e-learning modules to help introduce critical thinking to 422 first-year veterinary students through instructor-designed clini...

With the proliferation of technology advancements and the popularity of digital media applications we witness every day, the architecture of knowledge communication of one-to-many in schools has been changed. Traditionally, classrooms would typically consist of a limited number of students being taught with one teacher in a teacher-centered approac...

Kenwood Elementary School’s, in Champaign, Illinois, new concern is the technological literacy of its students in a society where exposure to technology can be limited to young students exposure in the public school system. Currently Kenwood is leading the way in making strides to introduce technology into the curriculum. As a group within the Grad...

Understanding learner participation is essential to any learning environment to enhance teaching and learning, especially in large scale digital spaces, such as massive open online courses. However, there is a lack of research to fully capture the dynamic nature of massive open online courses and the different ways learners participate in these eme...

With the rise of social networking sites and the arrival of an open education era characterized by Massive Open Online Courses MOOCs, learning is undergoing a paradigm shift which requires new assessment strategies. The boundaries between what we know, how we know it and the ways we assess and evaluate knowledge in formal and informal settings are...

With the rise of technology advancements we witness every day in our contemporary life in general, and in the education field in specific, new ways of learning are emerging, such as Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). MOOCs have grown rapidly for the past few years, yet meeting the needs of massive and diverse learners and keeping them motivated t...

p> In today’s increasingly fast-moving digital world, learners are immersed in multimodal online communication environments in their daily life, through Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat and others. This requires educators to reflect the environment in which these learners live, and thus design instructional practices from a multimodal perspec...

The tremendous growth of technology innovations we witness every day has impacted every aspect in our life, and education is no exception. Among the notable changes that technology has brought to education is the ability to facilitate critical thinking skills in the classrooms in a much easier way than it was before. While there have been considera...

Online education has been going through numerous transformations as new and innovative technologies influence and shape new e-learning portals. Differentiated e-learning promises to add value and enhance the educational services provided by an academic institution. In this paper we present our online learning model that advocates and endorses diffe...

With new generations immersed in virtual environments and the learning opportunities they offer on a daily basis, we must ask ourselves how education and schools will be affected. What is the purpose and role of the curriculum when knowledge and information are freely shared and curated online? Our students have access to blogs, wikis, apps and soc...

This chapter explores the concept of differentiated learning and how this may be facilitated by technology devices and digital media. It presents an overview of its current literature and introduces a model of how to use differentiated instruction at a scale which calls choice-based instruction. The chapter focuses on how educators in the field can...