Technology-Enhanced Learning

Abstract

There are numerous examples from recent years of the incorporation of all types of applications and technological systems into the classroom at all educational levels, with the aim to improve both student motivation and academic performance; we can group these initiatives under the term technology-enhanced learning, TEL. The TEL research field has been profoundly involved with the development and application of collaboration apps. Computers, mobile devices, and applications play diverse roles at different times along the project lifecycle. The most common lifecycle comprises four distinct phases: design, implementation, approval, and final assessment. In this chapter, the authors discuss key concepts of these TEL phases as well as some different approaches that can be defined as “good technological practices” and their main results in order to implement technologies in the formative process.