Resources: the Learning Sciences

At the Sloan-C conference in early November, a publisher recommended the Cambridge Handbook of Learning Sciences as a source for curriculum planning. The topic at the Sloan-C session was online collaborative learning, which commands a chapter in the Handbook. But the entire book speaks to what we have learned about learning in the past couple of decades. Foundational chapters address the "new science" of learning and the "interdisciplinary science" of learning.

Like any collection, the book crosses topics rapidly, from constructionism to project-based learning to "anytime, anywhere" computing devices. The thread running through the collection is the attention to scholarship.

Leading academic resources for Learning Sciences

U of Nottingham: Learning Sciences Research Institute
Carnegie Mellon U and U of Pittsburgh: Pittsburgh Science of Learning Center
U of Illinois at Chicago: Learning Sciences Research Institute
Georgia Institute of Technology: Learning Sciences and Technology
Goergie Institute of Technology: Journal of the Learning Sciences

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