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Wednesday, July 13, 2005
Design of the Learning Space: Learning and Design Principles - Chris Johnson and Cyprien Lomas, Educause Review
As students become increasingly digitally literate, higher education also needs to be concerned about the creation and support of virtual learning spaces. Anyone who has stood outside of a class as it is dismissed has witnessed the number of students using cellphones to call a friend or check for text messages. These “digital natives”2 are literate with the tools of the twenty-first century and remain connected through multifaceted, complex social interactions, both physical and virtual. As we design meaningful learning experiences, we need to be aware of how the potential of virtual learning space influences what happens in the formal and informal physical learning spaces. Therefore, a definition of learning space might be the following, as stated by Brown: “Learning spaces encompass the full range of places in which learning occurs, from real to virtual, from classroom to chat room.”3
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