The adoption of ICT for personal and business use has encouraged the growth of interactive learning as well as its application in a number of education and training scenarios. Designing effective syllabi for interactive learning projects helps to ensure that desired leaning outcomes are achieved without incurring a significant loss of time or money. Educational Stages and Interactive Learning: From Kindergarten to Workplace Training provides a record of current research and practical applications in interactive learning. This book reviews all aspects of interactive learning, investigates the history, status, and future trends of interactive learning, introduces emerging technologies for interactive learning, and analyzes interactive learning cases in various educational stages and learning situations. Readers interested in the technologies and pedagogical applications of interactive learning will find this book a comprehensive reference for the understanding of notions, theories, techniques, and methods related to the research and development of interactive learning.
Jiyou Jia is an Associate Professor at Department of Educational Technology, Graduate School of Education, and Director, International Research Center for Education and Information, Peking University, China. He got his B. S. and M. Edu. from Peking University, and Ph.D. from University of Augsburg, Germany. He was a visiting scholar to Free University Berlin and KAIST, Korea. His research interestsinclude educational technology and artificial intelligence in education. He has published more than 60 articles in international and national journals and peer reviewed conferences, and authored/edited four books. He has been responsible for or taken part in more than ten national key projects and international projects with Germany, Korea, USA, and Canada. He serves as a member of the editorial boardof three international journals and has been on the program committee of ten international conferences, and was invited to give speeches in a dozen of international or national conferences. He won the 20th IAAI (Innovative Application of Artificial Intelligence) Deployed Application Award by AAAI (Association of Advancement of Artificial Intelligence), USA, in 2008 and the Best Paper Award from the 15th Global Chinese Conference on Computers in Education in 2011.
