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New Books of Note
Mobile Learning: Towards a Research Agenda, edited by Norbert Pachler is now available from the Centre of Excellence in Work-based Learning for Education Professionals. The e-book can be downloaded free of charge from the WLE Centre website. Free hard copies are available while stocks last. For more information, contact Dr. Norber Pacher at n.pachler@ioe.ac.uk
The Cambridge Handbook of the Learning Sciences (CHLS) is now available. Cambridge has just published the CHLS, the first handbook of the learning sciences. CHLS is a true handbook in that readers can use it to design the schools of the future - schools that will prepare graduates to participate in a global society that is increasingly based on knowledge and innovation. Contact the editor of the handbook, R. Keith Sawyer, for more information.
Collaborative Learning, Reasoning, and Technology, edited by Angela M. O'Donnell, Cindy E. Hmelo-Silver, and Gijsbert Erkens, will be published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. This volume presents research findings on the use of technology to support learning and reasoning in collaborative contexts. Featuring a variety of theoretical perspectives, ranging from sociocultural to social psychological to information processing views, Collaborative Learning, Reasoning, and Technology includes an international group of authors well known for their contributions to research on technology learning environments.
Two themes are central: the use of technology as a scaffold for learning, and the use of technology to promote argumentation and reasoning. Collaboration among peers is a key element in both of these strands. These foci highlight, respectively, a key element in the design of technology-based learning environments and a key outcome that can result from online instruction/learning. As a whole, the volume addresses some of the core issues in using technology to support collaborative learning, reasoning, and argumentation.
