Learning and Instructional Technologies for the 21st Centurygathers research which identify models and approaches to improve learning through the inclusion of technology. These papers, from leading researchers and thinkers in instructional technology, begin by refuting the idea that education can be improved through more or better technology. Instead, the contributors emphasize specific, research-based ideas, which re-evaluate learning, reorganize schools, redirect technology, and provide instruction.

Leading group of researchers

Adventures and Advances in Instructional Design Theory and Practice.- Coming at Design from a Different Angle: Functional Design.- Robust Designs for Scalability.- Externally Modeling Mental Models.- Applying a Critical and Humanizing Framework of Instructional Technologies to Educational Practice.- When a Peer Group Isn#x2019;t Needed: Effective Online Learning in an Individual Mentoring Model.- Linking the POV-ing Theory to Multimedia Representations of Teaching, Learning, Research in the Age of Social Networking.- Creating Shared Visions of the Future for K-12 Education: A Systemic Transformation Process for a Learner-Centered Paradigm.- Technology as a Change Agent in the Classroom.- Using Activity Theory to Evaluate and Improve K-12 School and University Partnerships.- Reflections: Variations on a Theme.- Reflections: Variation on a Theme: Part 2 Is This Jazz, or Are We Singing the Blues?.