Nearly a decade has passed since the 1 st edition of The Cambridge Handbook of the Learning Sciences was published (CHLS) in 2006, the milestone work in the field. Since then, the learning sciences research activities have flourished and new ideas and studies are continuously emerging, revolutionarily impact human learning and educa-tional innovation. At the end of 2014, the second edition of CHLS was published. In this book, seventy-two leading learning scientists around the world express their views and present their studies on subjects like learning inside and outside of schools, teaching of specific discipline in formal learning such as literacy, math and history, the informal learning in museums and libraries, as well as such issues concerning technology-related learning forms as the embod-ied learning, mobile learning, and collaborative learning, etc. Under this context, the authors conducted an interview with editor Keith Sawyer, the Morgan Distinguished Professor in Educational Innovations at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. This interview focuses on three aspects:the latest development in Learning Sciences;the view of Keith Sawyer, as a leading learning scientist, on the methodology of learning sciences and its impact on educational innovation;infor-mal learning environments from the perspective of learning sciences. In addition, Dr Sawyer also shares his insights on the hot issues in education such as MOOCs, the flipped classrooms, maker movement, and big data.
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