Learning Environments: Where Space, Technology, and Culture Converge
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Author(s): Thomas Warger Gregory Dobbin
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Sources(s): EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI) Collection(s): ELI Papers and Reports
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Abstract
The introduction of information technologies into higher education added new dimensions to the educational enterprise and led to investigations into how the design of learning spaces affects teaching and learning. The time has come to broaden the scope of that inquiry and consider factors beyond space, including learning culture and the changing roles of instructors, students, and other people involved in teaching and learning. The effort to understand and develop effective learning environments includes more individuals and more roles than have generally been involved in the discussion about teaching and learning, and the factors at issue include, but go beyond, technology.