How to use digital learning with confidence and creativity : a practical introduction / Gearoid O Suilleabhain, Donna Lanclos, and Tom Farrelly, editors.

Includes index.

Introduction to How to Use Digital Learning with Confidence and Creativity -- Section I Technology -- Introduction to Section I -- Subsection I Key technologies, platforms and tools -- EdTech-topia: the land of abundance and uncertainty -- Navigating IT infrastructure for effective digital learning -- Bazaar university: an examination of procurement processes and sales tactics -- The learning management system (LMS) -- Considering authoring tools for digital learning -- Technologies for hybrid learning -- Digital learning with ePortfolios -- Learning analytics: a practical introduction -- Generative AI writing technologies -- Subsection II Larger technical trends and contexts -- Transformative forces: Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning -- Demystifying big data -- Blockchain and the future of digital learning -- Navigating the challenges and potential of the metaverse -- Section II Theory -- Introduction to Section II -- Managing place and space in the context of blended and hybrid learning -- Planning and designing for teaching and learning at scale -- Optimising face-to-face through digital: how to flip the classroom -- Digital play and learning -- What should I know about instructional design models? -- How to adapt the ABC Learning Design method for your institution -- Re-defining modes of learning -- Quality assurance frameworks for digital education -- Introducing the community of inquiry -- Digital learning and accessibility -- Learning transfer and preparing learners for future learning -- The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and digital learning -- Section III Praxis -- Introduction to Section III -- DIY digital learning -- Bypassing trends to serve the students in front of you -- Digital teaching in a datafied world -- Academic integrity in digital learning -- Micro-credential mountains and molehills -- Scenario-based learning -- When AI in education takes off without educators -- Open educational practices -- Pedagogy of care -- Critical instructional design: resisting commodification by investing in faculty -- Sustainability and digital learning -- The culture of a paradigm shift in digital learning -- Index.

How to Use Digital Learning with Confidence and Creativity is an accessible and practical guide to key topics in the field of digital learning. It offers advice and insights not just about core digital learning platforms and tools but about a range of ethical, pedagogical, ideological, and strategic challenges arising at the intersection of digital technology and teaching practice. This How to guide will help readers develop and deepen their understanding of how to support, research and engage with learning and learners in the digital age. Divided into three key sections, it offers valuable and practical guidance and perspectives about technical tools and systems, conceptual frameworks and theoretical structures and the integration of theory, technology and practice in real world teaching and learning contexts. The book brings together contributions from experienced instructional designers, learning technologists, teacher-scholars, and educational leaders, ensuring that while the content is accessible, it is also grounded in the real and dynamic world of contemporary digital learning. This is an invaluable resource for students and scholars of digital learning, innovation and technology in education, educational psychology and pedagogy, as well as academics and education leaders working to develop approaches to and provide strategic leadership in this complex and constantly-evolving area.