Conditions for effective smart learning environments

Effective Environmental Factors on Designing Productive Learning Environments

Educational spaces play an important role in enhancing learning productivity levels of society people as the most important places to human train. Considering the cost, time and energy spending on these spaces, trying to design efficient and optimized environment is a necessity. Achieving efficient environments requires changing environmental criteria so that they can have a positive impact on ...

Theoretical Foundations for Effective STEM Learning Environments

Into Identifying Effective Learning Environments

There are a range of ‘top down’ imperatives which have driven such an approach, including the need to sustainably finance educational infrastructure and show evidence as to how this money is being spent successfully. This need is emerging following the funding approaches now being taken by such bodies as the European Investment Bank and in Public Private Partnerships. On the other hand ‘bottom ...

Smart Learning Environments: a Shift of Paradigm

The incorporation of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) as a supporting mechanism in educational processes has already been proved as an important driver in reinforcing both teaching and learning. The extensive development of Learning Management Systems (LMS), software platforms aimed at supporting and articulating e-learning, education courses and training programs, is already ba...

Effective Management of Virtual Learning Environments

Virtual Learning Environments (VLEs) are now used by the vast majority of the UK’s Further and Higher Education sectors to support students’ learning. However, surveys suggest that the technology is not being effectively utilised. This may be due to e-learning having grown in a bottom up way and many institutional strategies and policies focussing on targets for getting content on-line. If the ...