Theoretical Foundations of Learning Environments (2nd Edition)

✍ Scribed by Susan Land, David Jonassen

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 361
• Edition: 2
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Theoretical Foundations of Learning Environments
Copyright
Contents
List of Figures
Preface
Part 1 Overview
1 Student-Centered Learning Environments: Foundations, Assumptions and Design
Part 2 Theoretical Perspectives for Learning Environments
2 From Practice Fields to Communities of Practice
3 Designing Model-Based Learning Environments to Support Mental Models for Learning
4 Conceptual Change and Student-Centered Learning Environments
5 Argumentation and Student-Centered Learning Environments
6 Theory and Practice of Case-Based Learning Aids
7 Metacognition and Self-Regulated Learning in Student-Centered Learning Environments
8 Embodied Cognition and Learning Environment Design
9 Everyday Expertise: Learning Within and Across Formal and Informal Settings
10 Activity Theory in the Learning Technologies
11 Learning Communities: Theoretical Foundations for Making Connections
12 What is a Community of Practice and How Can We Support It?
Part 3 Theoretical Perspective for Investigating Learning Environments
13 Learning Environments as Emergent Phenomena: Theoretical and Methodological Implications Complexity
List of Contributors
Index