Learning sciences is an interdisciplinary field that studies teaching and learning. The sciences of learning include cognitive science, educational psychology, computer science, anthropology, sociology, neuroscience, and other fields. The Cambridge Handbook of the Learning Sciences shows how educators can use the learning sciences to design more effective learning environments - including school classrooms and also informal settings such as science centers or after-school clubs, on-line distance learning, and computer-based tutoring software. The chapters in this handbook each describe exciting new classroom environments, based on the latest science about how children learn. CHLS is a true handbook in that readers can use it to design the schools of the future - schools that will prepare graduates to participate in a global society that is increasingly based on knowledge and innovation.

R．基思·索耶(R．Keith Sawyer)，是華盛頓大學聖路易斯分校的教育學副教授。他在芝加哥大學獲得瞭心理學博士學位，在麻省理工學院獲得瞭計算機科學理學士。他的主要研究領域有：創造力、協作和學習。