Theoretical foundations of learning environments

"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 and theory, 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"--Provided by publisher.

Part 1: Overview -- 1. Student-centered learning environments: foundations, assumptions and design / Susan M. Land, Michael J. Hannafin and Kevin Oliver -- Part 2: Theoretical perspectives for learning environments -- 2. From practice fields to communities of practice / Sasha A. Barab and Thomas Duffy -- 3. Designing model-based learning environments to support mental models for learning / Pablo Pirnay-Dummer, Dirk Ifenthaler, and Norbert M. Seel -- 4. Conceptual change and student-centered learning environments / David H. Jonassen and Matthew A. Easter -- 5. Argumentation and student-centered learning environments / E. Michael Nussbaum -- 6. Theory and practice of case-based learning aids / Janet L. Kolodner, Brian Dorn, Jakita Owensby Thomas and Mark Guzdial -- 7. Metacognition and self-regulated learning in student-centered learning environments / Roger Azevedo, Reza F. Behnagh, Melissa Duffy, Jason M. Harley, and Gregory Trevors -- 8. Embodied cognition and learning environment design / John B. Black, Ayelet Segal, Jonathan Vitale and Cameron L. Fadjo -- 9. Everyday expertise: learning within and across formal and informal settings -- 10. Activity theory in the learning techno…