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