Learning Spaces Matter: Student Engagement in New Learning Environments

2020 ◽  
pp. 002205742090806
Author(s):  
Yanira Oliveras-Ortiz ◽  
Dalane E. Bouillion ◽  
Lizzy Asbury
Keyword(s):  
Student Engagement ◽  
Learning Community ◽  
Learning Environments ◽  
New Learning Environments ◽  
New Learning ◽  
Student Focus ◽  
Qualitative Component ◽  
Design Of Learning Environments ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Study Student

Through a conceptual framework focused on student engagement, this article explores students’ perceptions about the impact the design of learning environments has on student engagement. The current mixed-methods study was conducted at two Texas replacement elementary schools where the entire learning community, all teachers, administrators, staff, and students, moved from an old building to a new building. Through the qualitative component of the study, student focus groups, the study explores the attributes of design and spaces that students value and perceive as having an impact on their learning and engagement. Students’ perceptions demonstrate that learning environments impact student engagement.

AI and AR

2021 ◽  
pp. 216-231
Author(s):  
Anita M. Cassard ◽  
Brian W. Sloboda
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Distance Learning ◽  
Augmented Reality ◽  
Learning Environments ◽  
Virtual Learning Environments ◽  
Learning Assessment ◽  
New Learning Environments ◽  
New Learning ◽  
Available Technology ◽  
The Impact

This chapter presents some of the possibilities and approaches that are used in the application of AI (artificial intelligence) and AR (augmented reality) in the new learning environments. AI will add another dimension to distance learning or eLearning that in some cases already includes AR (augmented reality) virtual learning environments. Because of this advent in available technology and the impact it will have on learning, assessment of newly structured parameters and their impact on student outcomes is crucial when measuring student learning. For some of us there might be a concern about the domination of AI as seen in the movie The Terminator, but we can take ease in the notion that it is not only AI versus humans. A new version of human augmented intelligence (HI) is being developed as we speak.

The impact of new learning environments in an engineering design course

2008 ◽  
Vol 36 (5-6) ◽  
pp. 375-393 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel L. Dinsmore ◽  
Patricia A. Alexander ◽  
Sandra M. Loughlin
Keyword(s):  
Engineering Design ◽  
Learning Environments ◽  
New Learning Environments ◽  
New Learning ◽  
The Impact

scholarly journals Medical student engagement and leadership within a new learning community

2010 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Bicket ◽  
Satish Misra ◽  
Scott M Wright ◽  
Robert Shochet
Keyword(s):  
Medical Student ◽  
Student Engagement ◽  
Learning Community ◽  
New Learning

scholarly journals Pedarchitecture: Which Learning Environments for the Personalisation of Teaching and Learning? An Educational Architecture for the Schools of the Future

2020 ◽  
pp. 85-107
Author(s):  
Mariagrazia Francesca Marcarini
Keyword(s):  
Learning Environments ◽  
Teacher Collaboration ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Personal Responsibility ◽  
First Grade ◽  
Traditional Learning ◽  
New Learning Environments ◽  
New Learning ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
Improved Learning

AbstractThis project investigates how to overcome traditional learning environment’s rigidity; those established practices that may hinder full use of what we might call new learning environments. It addresses how teachers adapt their teaching to changing learning environments, what impact new educational spaces have on teachers and students, how to organise students with different criteria, and how learning environments can be redesigned in old schools with limited investments. The research studies four schools: in Denmark, the Hellerup Folkeskole in Gentofte and the Ørestad Gymnasium in Copenhagen; in Italy, the Enrico Fermi High School in Mantua and IC3 Piersanti Mattarella secondary first grade in Modena. New learning environments are intended to enhance teacher collaboration and stimulate the exchange of new teaching methods, enabling learning personalisation. This is often facilitated by team teaching, which in this chapter is seen as a “bridge-culture” concept, offering a wider vision including structural and organisational details. The chapter discusses how this strategy lead to students improved learning skills, them taking on greater personal responsibility and displaying aptitude to study in different ways. In this sample of “architecture feeds pedagogy” schools, some key concepts are explored that might guide future learning environments design: readability, “semantic-topical”, flexibility, invisible pedagogy and affordances.

Using Infographics for Teaching

2021 ◽  
pp. 105-126
Author(s):  
Kyriaki Skenteridou ◽  
Theodosios Tsiakis
Keyword(s):  
Educational Technology ◽  
Environmental Education ◽  
Learning Environments ◽  
Information Dissemination ◽  
Teaching Tool ◽  
Historical Maps ◽  
Visual Aids ◽  
Modern Age ◽  
New Learning Environments ◽  
New Learning

Outstanding advances in educational technology are significantly influencing new learning environments, where it is necessary for teachers to respond and for learners to be able to adapt to the modern age of knowledge and information dissemination. The development of ICT has catalyzed the ability of all types of data to be reproduced visually (visualization). The term visualization refers to the use of various visual aids, which makes a subject more eloquent. This is especially useful for teaching a variety of special courses (environmental education), geography (maps, atlases), history (historical maps, atlases). Geography is a comprehensive and one of the most demanding subjects, as its study deals with a variety of different topics. This course can be made more effective and produce more permanent results through the use of innovative tools. One of these tools is information. In the context of the present study, the use of infographics, a pioneering visual tool transformed into a reliable teaching tool-guide in the classroom, is presented.

Additional eLearning Considerations Around the Instructor's Philosophical Belief Systems

2021 ◽  
pp. 114-134
Author(s):  
Sharon K. Andrews ◽  
Lisa Lacher ◽  
Todd Dunnavant
Keyword(s):  
Learning Community ◽  
Learning Environments ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Belief Systems ◽  
Educational Environment ◽  
Space And Place ◽  
Holistic Learning ◽  
Philosophical Beliefs ◽  
Time Space ◽  
The Impact

The instructor is an integral member of the educational environment through leading, facilitating, and supporting the development of a learning community. This is integrally important within an elearning environment, wherein motivational engagement is a potentially more nuanced environment due to the differentiation in time, space, and place. The instructor's philosophical belief systems highlight the potential for transformative social learning environments that directly impact the instructional design of the course, differentiating enhancements towards supporting user experience, as well as highlighting the potential for transformative impacts within learning environments as well as the holistic learning community. Advancing an enhanced understanding around the instructor's philosophical beliefs around the teaching and learning process strengthens not only the efforts of the instructor towards critical pedagogical understandings, but also the larger learning environment that includes the impact of the virtual world upon the digital connections that undergird communities of learning.

Encouraging and Increasing Student Engagement and Participation in an Online Classroom

2016 ◽  
pp. 426-447
Author(s):  
Kathryn Woods
Keyword(s):  
Online Learning ◽  
Student Engagement ◽  
Learning Environment ◽  
Prior Knowledge ◽  
Learning Environments ◽  
Online Courses ◽  
Traditional Classroom ◽  
Online Classroom ◽  
Online Learning Environments ◽  
The Impact

Advances in technology have increased opportunities for students to participate in online courses. While some instructors are beginning their careers teaching only online courses, others are discovering a need to teach sections of courses online after they have enjoyed a long career teaching in a traditional classroom. In either situation, it is important for instructors to recognize that students in online learning environments require the use of different strategies for encouraging engagement and participation in class. In this chapter, the author describes the challenges that students and instructors face specifically in the online learning environment as well as strategies for success, including how to maximize the impact of students' experiences and prior knowledge, using multiple platforms to deliver information, discouraging procrastination, setting clear expectations, encouraging individuality, capitalizing on diversity, and providing and utilizing helpful resources.

Design as aesthetic education: On the politics and aesthetics of learning environments

2020 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 175-187
Author(s):  
Christina Vagt
Keyword(s):  
Learning Environments ◽  
The United States ◽  
Media History ◽  
Political Aesthetics ◽  
1960S And 1970S ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Political Technology ◽  
Design Of Learning Environments ◽  
The Impact

The article, speaking from the double perspective of media history and political aesthetics, discusses the impact of behaviourism and early computer technology on the design of learning environments in the United States after the Second World War. By revisiting B. F. Skinner’s approaches to behavioural techniques and cultural engineering, and by showing how these principles were applied first at US design departments, and later to prison education, it argues that cybernetic and behavioural techniques merged in the common field of design and education. Behavioural design of the 1960s and 1970s furthered the cybernetic dream of total control over the world by addressing the learning environment rather than the individual, and operated within a space of possibility that was governed equally by technology and aesthetics. Behavioural design can therefore be understood as a political technology.

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