Learning to Learn with Integrative Learning Technologies (Ilt)

The purpose of this practical guide is to facilitate college students' academic success byfostering self-regulated learning skills or learning to learn through the use of IntegrativeLearning Technologies (ILT). It enables the college instructor online instructor instructionaldeveloper or educator to envision plan for and implement customized instructional andcurricular designs that foster learning to learn and motivate students to take ownership of theirown learning.Specifically this book demonstrates how college faculty who use Learning ManagementSystems (LMS) as well as emerging technologies such as Web 2.0 applications and socialsoftware can design learning tasks and course assignments that support and promote student:• goal setting• use of effective task strategies• self-monitoring and self-evaluation• time management• help seeking• motivation and affectGiven the emphasis on retention of freshmen as a measure of institutional effectiveness the focus on student success and the increasinguse of ILT in higher education this book fulfills a dire need in the literature on theintegration of technology and self-regulated learning.