Creating Compelling Learning EnvironmentsBreakout session Thursday 11 June 2009
Chair: Patricia WastiauEuropean Schoolnet
• We are all using the term
• Are we talking about the same thing?
‘Learning environment’
• used in connection with a range of quite specific areas of education,
‘Learning environment’
• as well as conveying some broad ideas about learning covering organisational, educational and physical aspects
‘Learning environment’
• Learning Environments Research journal include such aspects as cooperation between students, teacher’s use of language, teacher-student relationship and styles of teaching and assessment within their definition of learning
environment
‘Learning environment’
• parallels to social, cultural and physical aspects of the real world
‘Virtual learning environment’
Environnements numériques de travail
Pedagogy Data management system
Communication (with parents, etc.) Governance
European Schoolnet/Caisse des dépôts (France) project
• Session A: Innovative technology in education: new platforms, new expectations
• Keith Krueger, CoSN : Leadership for web 2.0 in education – Promise and reality
• Greg Black, Education.au : An Australian survey of teachers’ use of ICT and follow-up actions
• Kirsten Panton, Microsoft : Are we ready for the power
of ICT in education?
Creating Compelling Learning Environments
• Session B: What should be the future of learning environments?
• Christian Lorz, SMART: Connected learning – interactive classrooms and beyond
• Dr. Cher Ping Lim, Asia-Pacific Centre of Innovative technology in education and Edith Cowan University – Australia:
• Mary Hooker, Gesci : Building a Knowledge Society for All: Extending Learning beyond Classroom Walls
Creating Compelling Learning Environments