Twenty-one international researchers, architects, technical designers, and teachers contribute 12 chapters exploring emerging theoretical and technological developments related to the future classroom. Based on presentations from a January 2007 international conference held in Villars, Switzerland, the collection includes discussion about learning spaces shaped by instructional, classroom, and school building design; facilitating learning using technology-enhanced objects and furniture; knowledge building in virtual and physical learning spaces; and joint efforts for designing and implementing future spaces and learning. The contributions include various pedagogical models comprising formal and informal collaboration in individual, group-based, class-wide, and school-wide activities. Various settings (classroom, online, fieldtrip, excursion) and modes of communication (face-to-face, online and offline, synchronous and asynchronous) are described. For researchers, educators, designers, and students in education, psychology, didactics, computer science and design, as well as parents and policymakers. Annotation ©2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
