This new edition contains major updates in the field of learning technologies in university teaching. It provides a sound theoretical basis for designing and using learning technologies and suggests new approaches to managing learning.

Introduction; Part 1 Part I What students need from learning technologies; Chapter 1 Teaching as mediating learning; Chapter 2 Chapter 2 What students bring to learning; Chapter 3 Chapter 3 The complexity of coming to know; Chapter 4 Chapter 4 Generating a teaching strategy; Part 2 Part II Analysing the media for learning and teaching; A framework for analysis; Chapter 5 Chapter 5 Narrative media; Chapter 6 Chapter 6 Interactive media; Chapter 7 Chapter 7 Adaptive media; Chapter 8 Chapter 8 Communicative media; Chapter 9 Chapter 9 Productive media; Summary_II Summary of Part II; Part 3 Part III The design methodology; Chapter 10 Chapter 10 Designing teaching materials; Chapter 11 Chapter 11 Setting up the learning context; Chapter 12 Chapter 12 Designing an effective organisational infrastructure; Appendix I Extract from Plato's Meno dialogue; Appendix 2 Subject teaching journals available on the Web; Appendix 3 Summary of activities for an effective organisational infrastructure; Glossary; References; Index;