2nd Edition

Theoretical Foundations of Learning Environments

Edited By Susan Land, David Jonassen Copyright 2012
    360 Pages 60 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    360 Pages 60 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    Theoretical Foundations of Learning Environments provides students, faculty, and instructional designers with a clear, concise introduction to the major pedagogical and psychological theories and their implications for the design of new learning environments for schools, universities, or corporations. Leading experts describe the most important contemporary theories that form the foundation of the conception and design of student-centered learning environments and new applications of educational technologies. This book is well suited as a textbook for courses in instructional design, educational psychology, learning theory, curriculum theory and design, and related areas.

    The rise of constructivism and its associated theories represented a paradigm shift for educators and instructional designers to a view of learning as necessarily more social, conversational, and constructive than traditional transmissive views of learning. This bestselling book was the first to provide a manageable overview of the altered field, and the second edition has been fully updated to include expert introductions to Metacognition, Argumentation, and other key contemporary theories.

    Preface

    Part 1: Overview

    1.     Student-Centered Learning Environments: Foundations, Assumptions and Design

    Susan Land, The Pennsylvania State University

    Michael Hannafin, University of Georgia

    Kevin Oliver, North Carolina State University

    Part 2: Theoretical Perspectives for Learning Environments

    2. From Practice Fields to Communities of Practice

    Sasha Barab, Arizona State University

    Thomas Duffy, Indiana University

    3. Designing Model-Based Learning Environments to Support Mental Models for Learning

    Pablo Pirnay-Dummer

    Dirk Ifenthaler

    Norbert M. Seel

    Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg, Germany


    4. Conceptual Change

    David Jonassen

    Matthew Easter

    University of Missouri

    5. Argumentation and Student-Centered Learning Environments

    E. Michael Nussbaum, University of Nevada-Las Vegas

    6. Theory and Practice of Case-Based Learning Aids

    Janet L. Kolodner, Georgia Institute of Technology

    Brian Dorn, University of Hartford

    Jakita Owensby Thomas, Spelman College

    Mark Guzdial, Georgia Institute of Technology


    7. Metacognition and Self-Regulated Learning in Student-Centered Learning Environments

    Roger Azevedo

    Reza F. Behnagh

    Melissa Duffy

    Jason M. Harley

    Gregory Trevors

    McGill University

     

    8. Embodied Cognition and Learning Environment Design

    John B. Black

    Ayelet Segal

    Jonathan Vitale

    Cameron Fadjo

    Teacher’s College of Colombia University

    9. Everyday expertise: Learning within and across formal and informal settings

    Heather Toomey Zimmerman, The Pennsylvania State University

    Phillip Bell, University of Washington

    10. Activity Theory in the Learning Technologies

    Ben DeVane, University of Florida

    Kurt Squire, University of Wisconsin-Madison

     

    11. Learning Communities: Theoretical Foundations for Making Connections

    Janette R. Hill, University of Georgia

    12. What is a community of practice and how can we support it?

    Christopher Hoadley, New York University

     

    Part 3: Theoretical Perspective for Investigating Learning Environments

    13. Learning Environments as Emergent Phenomena: Theoretical and Methodological Implications of Complexity

    Michael Jacobson, University of Sydney

    Manu Kapur, Nanyang Technological University

     

    Author Index

    Subject Index

    Biography

    David Jonassen is Curators’ Professor at the University of Missouri.

    Susan Land is Associate Professor of Education and Professor-in-Charge of the Instructional Systems program at Penn State University.

    "This second edition has been fully updated to include contemporary thinking on learning theory. The book is well suited as a textbook for courses in instructional design, educational psychology, learning theory, curriculum theory and design, and related areas." ― Educational Media International