Teacher education plays a vital role in educating our teacher - which in turn educates our children in information age and knowledge-based economy. Simply having knowledge is not enough; students equipped with having the necessary skills to apply knowledge in real life is more important. This book discusses teacher education.

Identifies pertinent issues related to practitioner research and describes various attempts in theorising teacher research, outlining research agenda, promoting the culture of teacher-led research, building capacity, developing models and examining the thinking about practitioner research.

The earliest educational software simply transferred print material from the page to the monitor. Since then, the Internet and other digital media have brought students an ever-expanding, low-cost knowledge base and the opportunity to interact with minds around the globe--while running the risk of shortening their attention spans, isolating them from interpersonal contact, and subjecting them to information overload.

The New Science of Learning: Cognition, Computers and Collaboration in Education deftly explores the multiple relationships found among these critical...