2005 - The Learning Sciences, Education, and Technology: Issues and Opportunities Research in the learning sciences provides useful guidelines for designing and using technology to enhance learning in higher education environments. Key principles from learning research will be discussed, and examples of technology-enhanced learning environments will be illustrated and analyzed. Special emphasis will be placed on the concept of adaptive expertise” as a gold standard for higher education and on the kinds of experiences that appear to help students begin on a path toward adaptive expertise. Efforts to achieve this goal require rethinking what we teach and how content knowledge is organized, who we are teaching and how they differ from us as students, how we teach, and how we assess success. John Bransford is an internationally renowned scholar in cognition and technology. He joined the University of Washington in Seattle in 2003 where he holds the title of the James W. Mifflin University Professorship and Professor of Education. Prior to this time he was Centennial Professor of Psychology and Education and Co-Director of the Learning Technology Center at Vanderbilt University. Dr. Bransford served as co-chair of several National Academy of Science committees that wrote How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience and School(1999) and How People Learn, Bridging Research and Practice(1999). He is currently serving as Co-Chair of the National Academy of Science and National Academy of Education Committees and on the International Board of Advisors for Microsoft’s Technology and Learning program. (Javascript is required to view Mediasite content)