TY  - BOOK
AU  - Peter DePietro
PY  - 2011
CY  - New York, United States of America
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 1058-1634
SN  - 9781453908310
TI  - Transforming Education with New Media
T2  - Participatory Pedagogy, Interactive Learning, and Web 2.0
DO  - 10.3726/978-1-4539-0831-0
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1109398
N2  - The possibilities that online platforms and new media technologies provide, in terms of human connection and the dissemination of information, are seemingly endless. With Web 2.0 there is an exchange of messages, visions, facts, fictions, contemplations, and declarations buzzing around a network of computers that connects students to the world – fast. Theoretically this digital connectivity, and the availability of information that it provides, is beneficial to curriculum development in higher education. Education is easily available, democratic, and immersive. But is it worthwhile? Is the kind of education one can get from new media platforms and social media resources, with their click-on videos, rollover animations, and unfiltered content, of sufficient quality that educators should integrate these tools into teaching? This book examines the use of new media in pedagogy, as it presents case studies of the integration of technology, tools, and devices in an undergraduate curriculum taught by the author, at an urban research university in the United States.
KW  - higher education, information, curriculum development, connectivity
LA  - English
ER  -