Eva Brooks is Professor with Special Responsibilities towards IT-Based Design, Learning and Innovation and Director of Xlab in the Department of Culture and Learning at Aalborg University, Denmark.

Susanne Dau is Docent (Associate Professor) and research manager at the Professional Development and Educational Research Programme in the Department of Research & Development at the University College of Northern Denmark, Denmark.

Staffan Selander is Senior Professor in Education and Didactic Science in the Department of Computer and Systems Sciences at Stockholm University, Sweden.

Foreword

Eva Brooks, Susanne Dau & Staffan Selander

Preface: Digital learning and collaborative practices

Eva Brooks, Susanne Dau & Staffan Selander

Contributor Biographies

Part 1 - Designing for collaboration: frameworks of learning

Introduction: Designing for collaboration: frameworks of learning

Eva Brooks & Staffan Selander

1. Designing as play

Eva Brooks

2. Designs for learning and knowledge representations in collaborative settings

Ola Knutsson, Robert Ramberg & Staffan Selander

3. A learning ecology design

Susanne Dau

4. Collaborative learning in dialogic digital environments

Elsebeth Korsgaard Sorensen

Part 2 - Inclusive pratices through digital technologies

Introduction: Inclusive practices through digital technologies

Eva Brooks & Susanne Dau

5. Promises and perils - the affordances of technology for promoting inclusion of learners in educational settings

Hanne Voldborg Andersen, Elsebeth Korsgaard Sorensen, Rune Hagel Skaarup Jensen

6. Designs for learning with adaptive games and Teachable Agents

Susanne Kjällander & Kristen Pilner Blair

7. Learning music by composing on iPads

Bjørn-Terje Bandlien

8. The Zone of Optimised Motivation (ZOOM)

Anthony Lewis Brooks

Part 3 - Empowering participation

Introduction: Empowering participation

Susanne Dau & Staffan Selander

9. Reflective and innovative learning designs inspired by gaming principles

Camilla Gyldendahl Jensen & Susanne Dau

10. When the game breaks down, the stories begin

Tobias Alexander Bang Tretow-Fish & Thorkild Hanghøj

11. Virtual Reality learning experiences about dementia

Anders Kalsgaard Møller & Markus Löchtefeld

12. Children's programming of robots by designing fairytales

Eva Brooks & Jeanette Sjöberg

13. The transformative potential of school-based makerspaces: Novel designs in educational practice

Kristiina Kumpulainen & Anu Kajamaa

14. Whiteboxing "bits n bots": how "flawed" and emerging technologies can facilitate computational play and learning

Lykke Brogaard Bertel & Pauline Fredskilde

15. Designing virtual cases for learning and assessment

Uno Fors

Epilogue: Lessons from Inclusive and Empowering Participation in Emerging Technologies

Eva Brooks, Susanne Dau & Staffan Selander

Digital Learning and Collaborative Practices offers a comprehensive overview of design-based, technology-enhanced approaches to teaching and learning in virtual settings. Today's digital communications foster new opportunities for sharing culture and knowledge while also prompting concerns over division, disinformation and surveillance. This book uniquely emphasises playful, collaborative experiences and democratic values in a variety of environments-adaptive, augmented, dialogic, game-based and beyond. Graduate students and researchers of educational technology, the learning sciences and interaction design will discover rich theories, interventions, models and approaches for concretising emerging practices and competencies in digital learning spaces.