Video Research in the Learning Sciences aims to deepen our understanding of theory, methods, and practices for using video to add new layers of meaning to scholarship in the learning sciences. Our authors explore the breadth of work underway in the learning sciences that is devoted to fostering the art, science and practices of video as a way of knowing about and sharing learning, teaching, and educational processes. As a community of authors using video, we seek to advance what takes place when researchers use video to record, annotate and reflect on their work with teachers and learners in reflexive, epistemological, and hermeneutical collaborative learning endeavors.

Our primary concern is to contribute both to the science of learning through in-depth video studies of human interaction in learning environments—whether classrooms or other contexts—and the uses of video for creating descriptive, explanatory, or expository accounts of learning and teaching. Our volume is dedicated to taking stock of the growing field and frontiers of video research, both theoretically and methodologically, and to push the technological envelope in designing the next generation of digital video tools.