International Handbook of the Learning Sciences

The International Handbook of the Learning Sciences is a comprehensive collection of international perspectives on this interdisciplinary field. In more than fifty chapters, leading experts synthesize past, current, and emerging theoretical and empirical directions for learning sciences research. The three sections of the handbook capture, respectively, 1.) foundational contributions from multiple disciplines and the ways in which the learning sciences has fashioned these into its own brand of use-oriented theory, design, and evidence; 2.) learning sciences approaches to designing, researching and, evaluating learning broadly construed; and 3.) the methodological diversity of learning sciences research, assessment, and analytic approaches. This volume is required reading for scholars and students engaged in research on learning and the design of learning environments.

Frank Fischer is Full Professor of Educational Science and Educational Psychology, and Director of the Munich Center of the Learning Sciences, at Ludwig-Maximilian University of Munich, Germany.

Cindy E. Hmelo-Silver is Barbara B. Jacobs Chair of Education and Technology and Professor of Learning Sciences at Indiana University Bloomington, USA.

Peter Reimann is Professor of Education at the CoCo Research Centre and Co-Director of the Centre for Research on Learning & Innovation (CRLI) at The University of Sydney, Australia.

Susan R. Goldman is Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Education and Co-Director of the Learning Sciences Research Institute at the University of Illinois at Chicago, USA.