1. Introducing conversation design / Rocci Luppicini -- 2. Working with Gordon Pask (1967-1978) / Bernard Scott -- 3. Instructions for design and designs for conversation / Paul Pangaro -- 4. The human centrality of conversational learning / Gary McIntyre Boyd -- 5. Conversation and design / Ranulph Glanville -- 6. Conversation theory conceptualized in e-learning environments / Janet Holland, Marcus Childress -- 7. Conversation design in the electronic discussion age / Gregory MacKinnon -- 8. Conversation theory /Kit Leung -- 9. Online tutoring as conversation design / Guadalupe de la Cruz Mendoza, Nick Kearney -- 10. Instructional conversations / Lorraine Sherry, Shelley Billig -- 11. Making online bulletin board dialogues work / Gülsün Kurubacak -- 12. Designing online conversations to engage local practice / Alyssa Wise, Thomas Duffy -- 13. Applying grounded conversation design to instruction / Rocci Luppicini -- 14. Constructing online conversation to support learning / Li Jin, Albert Ingram -- 15. Telling stories / Vanessa Dennen, Melinda Sota --16. Pask and Ma join forces in an elementary mathematics methods course / Jean Morrow, Janet Holland -- 17. Using the interpersonal action-learning cycle to invite thinking, attentive comprehension / Bob Zimmer --18. Conversation for school change / Helga Stokes --19. A conversational framework for self-organised learning / Sheila Harri-Augstein, Laurie Thomas -- 20. Design and evaluation of embodied conversational agents for educational and advisory software / Elisabeth André -- 21. Modelling spoken multimodal instructional systems / Niels Ole Bernsen, Laila Dybkjær -- 22. Mobile technology and its applications in instructional conversation / Jason Caudill -- 23. Dialogue mapping and collaborative learning / Fung Ng -- 24. Politeness as a social computing requirement / Brian Whitworth, Tong Liu.