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Technology-Enabled Learning

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The chapter examines the impact and role of technology on tourism curriculum, pedagogy, and assessment. The chapter starts by considering the importance of technology as a content area in the tourism curriculum. The discussion explores contemporary applications of technologies such as simulations, Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), and mobile learning and their impact on pedagogy. The discussion of assessment practice considers how technologies have provided learners and educators with new tools for assuring and verifying learning gains. Challenges, benefits, and future directions are highlighted throughout the chapter. Key themes across the chapter are brought together in the form of a future research agenda for educators and researchers. It is hoped that this chapter will help tourism academics and educators to make informed decisions about the adoption and integration of contemporary educational technologies in their own courses and institutions.

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  1. Department of Educational Technology, School of Education, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou, China

    Ruiqi Deng

  2. UQ Business School, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia

    Pierre Benckendorff

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  1. Department of Hospitality and Tourism Management, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, USA

    Zheng Xiang

  2. Department of Tourism Studies and Geography, Mid Sweden University, Östersund, Sweden

    Matthias Fuchs

  3. Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

    Ulrike Gretzel

  4. Department of Business Informatics, University of Applied Sciences Ravensburg-Weingarten, Weingarten, Germany

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Deng, R., Benckendorff, P. (2020). Technology-Enabled Learning. In: Xiang, Z., Fuchs, M., Gretzel, U., Höpken, W. (eds) Handbook of e-Tourism. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-05324-6_129-1

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