Wesley Shumar (Philadelphia Drexel University)

Gebundenes Buch

Inside Mathforum.Org

Analysis of an Internet-Based Education Community

Beschreibung

This book details how the Math Forum uses the internet and digital media to support learning interactions of teachers and students. It is a case study for university students, pre-service teachers, and faculty members interested in how learning and professional development can be supported by digital media and online spaces.

Autor

Wesley Shumar is an anthropologist at Drexel University, Philadelphia. His research focuses on digital media, math education and virtual educational communities. Since 1997, he has worked as an ethnographer at the Math Forum. Currently, he is Co-Principal Investigator on EnCoMPASS, a four-year National Science Foundation (NSF) project designed to build an online community of math teachers through formative assessment and a focus on student problem-solving. He was the Principal Investigator on two other NSF projects, the Online Mentoring Project and the Math Forum's Virtual Fieldwork Sequence. He is co-editor of Building Virtual Communities: Learning and Change in Cyberspace (with K. Ann Renninger, Cambridge, 2002).

Produktdetails

• Learning in Doing: Social, Cognitive and Computational Perspectives
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 198
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. September 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 167mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 416g
• ISBN-13: 9781107138858
• ISBN-10: 110713885X
• Artikelnr.: 48398858