The Psychology of Digital Learning

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Learning from Multimedia: Cognitive Processes and Instructional Support

   • Katharina Scheiter, Anne Schüler, Alexander Eitel

   Pages 1-19

3. The Physiology of Numerical Learning: From Neural Correlates to Embodied Trainings

   • Ursula Fischer, Elise Klein, Tanja Dackermann, Korbinian Moeller

   Pages 21-40

4. Digital Pictures, Videos, and Beyond: Knowledge Acquisition with Realistic Images

   • Stephan Schwan

   Pages 41-59

5. Learning and Problem-Solving with Hypermedia in the Twenty-First Century: From Hypertext to Multiple Web Sources and Multimodal Adaptivity

   • Peter Gerjets

   Pages 61-88

6. Knowledge Exchange as a Motivated Social Process

   • Annika Scholl, Florian Landkammer, Kai Sassenberg

   Pages 89-104

7. A Conceptual Framework of Knowledge Exchange

   • Jürgen Buder

   Pages 105-122

8. The Interrelations of Individual Learning and Collective Knowledge Construction: A Cognitive-Systemic Framework

   • Ulrike Cress, Joachim Kimmerle

   Pages 123-145

9. Digital Design and Learning: Cognitive-Constructivist Perspectives

   • Carmen Zahn

   Pages 147-170

10. Knowledge Networks in Social Media

    • Sonja Utz, Ana Levordashka

    Pages 171-186

11. Back Matter

    Pages 187-205

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This book provides an overview of the state-of-the art of psychological research on learning and knowledge exchange with digital media, based on a comprehensive research program that was realized at the Leibniz-Institut für Wissensmedien(IWM) during the last decade. The dramatic rise of new tools and technologies, including both hardware devices like smartphones, tablets, multitouch-tables, or stereoscopic screens as well as software environments like Google, Wikipedia, Facebook, Twitter or MOOCs – has fundamentally reshaped teaching, learning, and knowledge exchange. The authors describe an area of digital learning in light of these recent technological developments, specify the relevant theoretical approaches, summarize the main research results from the lab, and discuss their theoretical and practical implications.

• Digital Learning
• Educational Psychology
• Educational Technology and Instructional Psychology
• Learning and Digital Media
• Psychology of Learning
• Psychology of Learning with Digital Media
• learning and instruction

• Realistic Depictions, Leibniz-Institut für Wissensmedien, Tübingen, Germany

  Stephan Schwan

• Knowledge Construction, Leibniz-Institut für Wissensmedien, Tübingen, Germany

  Ulrike Cress

Stephan Schwan is principal research scientist and university professor for research on teaching and learning. From 1989-1992 he worked as research associate at the Department of Psychology at the University of Tuebingen, Department of Cognitive and Biological Psychology. In 1993 he started working as a research associate at the German Institute of Research for Distance Education (DIFF), located at the University of Tuebingen, Department of Applied Cognitive Science, where he stayed until 1998. Since 2004 Stephan Schwan has been full professor for research on teaching and learning at the Knowledge Media Research Center Tuebingen. Together with his lab he works on perceptual and cognitive processes during the reception of three-dimensional and interactive visual presentations (cybermedia) as well as on user centered design.
Ulrike Cress is a full professor at the University of Tuebingen and deputy director of the Knowledge Media Research Center. In 2006 she got her venia legendi for psychology doing a work on the information-exchange dilemma. With her lab "knowledge construction" she is doing research on learning with new media in formal settings as well as in informal settings. She is interested in knowledge management, and in the development and implementation of media-based learning scenarios. In particular she works on the social and cognitive processes of people constructing new knowledge. Much of her research aims to further develop the Co-Evolution Model of Individual Learning and Collaborative Knowledge Building, which she presented in 2008.

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