This book provides contemporary insights into learning outcomes arising from the use of learning platforms by pupils, students and teachers in schools. Most current research focuses on the implementation of learning platforms, and the ways in which practices are developing over time, or in specific contexts. This collection offers a range of contrasting but complementary perspectives in this area, including an exploration of applications supporting management of learning across primary and secondary schools in the UK, an in-depth case study of uses and outcomes in a school in Singapore, an analysis of learning outcomes arising across primary, special and secondary schools in one local authority in the UK, and a look at student preferences for using a learning platform in a school in Taiwan.

Introduction: Learning platforms and learning outcomes - insights from research Don Passey and Steve Higgins 1. The use of learning platforms to organise learning in English primary and secondary schools Carey Jewitt, Wilma Clark and Christina Hadjithoma-Garstka 2. Open-source learning management system and Web 2.0 online social software applications as learning platforms for an elementary school in Singapore Lee Yong Tay, Cher Ping Lim, Sze Yee Lye, Kay Joo Ng and Siew Khiaw Lim 3. Implementing learning platforms into schools: an architecture for wider involvement in learning Don Passey 4. Exploring the relationship between virtual learning environment preference, use, and learning outcomes in 10th grade earth science students Ming-Chao Lin, M. Shane Tutwiler and Chun-Yen Chang 5. The effect of information literacy on physical education students' perception of a course management system Nikolaos Vernadakis, Panagiotis Antoniou, Maria Giannousi, Eleni Zetou and Efthimis Kioumourtzoglou 6. College students' conceptions of learning management: the difference between traditional (face-to-face) instruction and Web-based learning environments Hung-Ming Lin and Chin-Chung Tsai