Psychology of Digital Learning

This book provides an overview of the state-of-the art of psychologicalresearch on learning and knowledge exchange with digital media, based on acomprehensive 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, orstereoscopic screens as well as software environments like Google, Wikipedia, Facebook,Twitter or MOOCs - has fundamentally reshaped teaching, learning, and knowledgeexchange. The authors describe an area of digital learning in light of these recent technological developments, specify therelevant theoretical approaches, summarize the main research results from the lab, anddiscuss their theoretical and practical implications.