ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts covered in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book reviews some tools that demonstrate potential to enhance college learning by making it easier for instructors and students to create and share multimedia content, build relationships at a distance, and make learning more interactive and collaborative. The flipped classroom model uses video recordings of lectures that are shared with students before class time, freeing up face-to-face time to interact with students and apply the information learned in the videos. Administrator attitudes and policies about the role of smartphones in the classroom are changing in K-12 education. Outside the walls of the classroom, most college students learn through connected and highly personalized experiences. Millennials are accustomed to learning from their peers in a virtual community in which their opinions and ideas matter. This model dramatically contradicts the traditional, hierarchic, top-down model imposed in most college classrooms.
