Don Passey is a Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Educational Research at Lancaster University, UK.

• Chapter 1 An overview of approaches taken in this bookChapter 2 Educational digital technologies and learningChapter 3 Types of digital technologies and their applications in educational settingsChapter 4 Groups of learners and impacts of digital technologies on learningChapter 5 Groups of mediators and uses of digital technology in supporting learnersChapter 6 Conclusions and where next: Balance, balance, balance

“From his thorough and comprehensive review of recent evidence regarding the benefits of digital technologies in learning, Don Passey pinpoints the array of challenges facing educators and researchers, if the potential of the technological revolution is ever to be realised in practice.”—Sonia Livingstone, author of Children and the Internet and Professor of Social Psychology, Department of Media and Communications, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK“Passey fully acknowledges the complexities of technology enhanced learning. He convincingly shows that it can only be understood through an in-depth and integrated analysis of technologies, learners, and human mediators.”—Jeroen J. G. van Merriënboer, Professor of Learning and Instruction, Maastricht University, The Netherlands