Technology-Enabled Innovation for Academic Transformation in Higher Education

Abstract

This chapter examines the challenges facing U.S. higher education today and profiles universities that are spearheading academic transformation to address these challenges with emerging technology and media. Identifying five technology-powered innovation models (competency-based education, experiential education, student success-centered education, open education, and lifelong education), the author studies institutions that exemplify innovation, and shows how technology has enabled academic transformation that has changed the higher education landscape. These pioneering institutions provide successful models of academic transformation for the higher education industry.

Computer Students Attitudes on the Integration of m-Learning Applications

“…An immediate search for the mobile application stores presents hundreds of free downloadable applications that can be used for learning and teaching. Nevertheless, m-Learning has the possibility to aid task-based learning and collaborative learning [2,3,5,18,19] the importance dedicated in mwww.ijacsa.thesai.org Learning has been primarily on the delivery of the content that followed teacher mediated technology integration. Early research focused on the sending SMS for quizzes, vocabulary, instruction receiving, and few have focused on the content and its incorporation for teaching.…”

“…The key reason behind this notion is that these gadgets are the source of gateway for global interaction. Because of the rapid progression and innovation, the use of computer technology is persistently used in education institutions [2]. Now the teachers have access to computer labs in the shape of mobile learning ubiquitously.…”