Technology-Enhanced Learning in the Age of Technology that Learns

The main evolutionary advantages of human beings over other forms of life are our ability to learn and to teach. These abilities enable continuous growth of the body of knowledge of humankind and foster permanent innovation, where every new generation can build upon what has been discovered and invented before, ultimately reaching the point where we invented technology that learns by itself.

These abilities also lead us to permanently rethinking and redesigning the ways we learn and teach, with technology-enhanced learning (TEL) being the research field that addresses, explores and evaluates technological innovation and their impact on education.

The book looks at the history of learning and highlights how the age of fast paced innovation changes the expectations towards education and which role technology-enhanced learning plays. It looks at five key domains of TEL (serious games and gamification, seamless and mobile learning, educational robotics and computational thinking, multimodal immersive learning, and artificial intelligence in education) to conclude how these fields in combination can contribute to education that prepares learners for an unknown future.