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 50 chapters, leading experts synthesize past, current, and emerging theoretical and empirical directions for learning sciences research. The three sections of the handbook capture, respectively: 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; learning sciences approaches to designing, researching, and evaluating learning broadly construed; and the methodological diversity of learning sciences research, assessment, and analytic approaches. This pioneering collection is the definitive volume of international learning sciences scholarship and an essential text for scholars in this area.

Frank Fischer is Professor of Educational Psychology and Educational Sciences in the Department of Psychology and Director of the Munich Center of the Learning Sciences (MCLS) at Ludwig Maximilian University, 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.

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.

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.