Ronghuai Huang is a Professor in Faculty of Education and Dean of Smart Learning Institute in Beijing Normal University. He received "Chang Jiang Scholar" award in 2017, which is the highest academic award issued to an individual in higher education by the Ministry of Education in China. He now serves as the Director of the National Engineering Lab for Intelligent Cyber-Learning Technology, and Director of Beijing Key Laboratory for Educational Technology. He is also the president of International Association of Smart Learning Environments, Editor-in-Chief of Springer's Smart Learning Environments and Journal of Computers in Education, as well as Editor-in-Chief of Springer's series Lecture Notes in Educational Technology and Smart Computing and Intelligence.
J. Michael Spector is a Professor and Former Chair of Learning Technologies at the University of North Texas. He earned a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Texas at Austin. His research focuses on intelligent support for instructional design, assessing learning in complex domains, and technology integration in education. He is editor of Educational Technology Research and Development and serves on numerous other editorial boards. He edited the third and fourth editions of Handbook of Research on Educational Communications and Technology, as well as Encyclopedia of Educational Technology, and has more than 150 publications to his credit.
Junfeng Yang is a professor and dean of Department of Educational Technology at Hangzhou Normal University. He earned the title of "Zhejiang Young Zhijiang social science scholar", "Hangzhou new century 131 scholar". He has published more than 30 academic papers, including SSCI journal papers and outstanding Chinese journal papers. He also serves as the associate editor of Springer's Smart Learning Environments.

Section 1 Introduction and overview.- Introduction to educational technology.- Introduction to learning in context of existing and emerging technologies.- Foundations, evolution and developments in educational technology.- Section 2 Perspectives.- Typologies and key approaches to educational technology.- Systems' perspectives of educational technology.- Users' Perspectives of educational technology.- Learner Experiences and Perspectives of Educational Technology.- Section 3.- Design, implementation and evaluation.- Design requirements.- Design process and development lifecycles.- Instructional design and development.- Evaluation models, approaches and practices.- Section 4 Emerging technologies and advance applications.- Critical Issues in educational technology.- Emerging Issues in educational technology.