TheLearningEnvironment

“To heredity, thechild oweshis

possibilities. However,to
environment,heowesthe
realization ofthesepossibilities.”
WHAT IS A CONDUCIVE
LEARNING
ENVIRONMENT ?
Definition
Learning Environment refers to the whole range of components
and activities within which learning happens.

Learning Environment relies on computer-supported Systems

such as a Learning management system, a combination of various
educational technologies like communication module.

Learning environments are typically constructivist in nature,

engaging learners in "sense-making" or reasoning about extensive
resource sets.

Learning Environment is the place where teaching and learning

take place in the most effective and productive manner. It consist
of the classroom and all the instructional features and non-
threatening classroom climate needed in planning and implementing
all teaching and learning activities.
 Physical
Environment

The physical environment includes

the physical condition of the classroom,
the arrangement of furniture, seating
arrangement, the classroom
temperature and lighting.
Arrangement of Furniture
Arrangement of Furniture
Physical Condition of the Classroom
Physical Condition of the Classroom
 Classroom Proceedings
Classroom proceedings also accommodates
different types of learners. For instance,
students who are visual learners can excel in a
classroom setting where theatrical presentations,
story telling or movies contribute to the lessons.
Hands-on learners may also do well in a
schoolroom.
Classroom Proceedings
Interactions
Interactions
Psychological
Climate
 An enabling context - Authentic or realistic context is
provided to motivate learners, and typically take the form
of complex, full-scale problems representative of real-world
tasks.

 Resources - To help students understand their complex

problems, extensive resources can be provided. A truly
open-ended learning environment would involve students in
independent research to find and select their own relevant
resources (e.g., in the campus library, on the internet).

A set of tools - In some learning environments, however,

selected resource sets are provided to learners. A full set
of tools should be provided to help learner’s process
information, manipulate data, and discuss the data.

 Scaffolds- Scaffolds should also be present to bolster

student problem solving as needed. These can take many
forms from tools to teachers to student peers.
``Teacher component: Its role is to provide something between loose
guidance and direct instruction. It can be a human agent (present or
distant), an intelligent agent, instructions like some text books provide,
etc. This component provides information from the syllabus to the task
level.
``Monitor component: Ensures that something is learned. A role taken by
either the human teacher, the learner (self-control) or by some program.
``Fellow learner’s component: Improves the learning process by
collaborative learning principle.
``Learning material: Contains what has to be learned in a very broad
sense (knowing what, knowing how). It can be computational in various
ways (exploratory hypertext, lesson and task oriented hypertext,
simulation software, task solving environments, etc.).
``External information sources: All kinds of information which is not
directly stored in the learning material (e.g. additional material,
handbooks, manuals, etc.).
``Tools: Everything which may help the learning process other then the
learning material (e.g. calculators, communication software, etc.)
``School: Something that provides a curriculum and does student
administration.
A Facilitative Learning Environment
Encourages people to be active
Promotes and facilitates the individual’s discovery of the personal
meaning of idea.
Emphasizes the uniquely personal and subjective nature of learning.
In which difference is good anddesirable.
Consistently recognizes people’s right to make mistakes.
Tolerate ambiguity.
Evaluation is a cooperative process which emphasis onself-evaluation.
Encourages openness of self rather than concealment of self.
People are encouraged to trust in themselves as well as in external
sources.
People feel they are respected.
People feel they are accepted.
Permits confrontation.
A facilitative Learning
Environment
10 Characteristics of a Highly Effective
Environment

 The students ask the question –good questions

 Questions are valued over answers
 Ideas come from a variety of sources
 A variety of instructional design methods are
used
 Classroom learning “empties” into an authenticcommunity
 Learning is personalized by a variety of criteria
 Assessment is persistent, authentic, transparent,
and never punitive
 Learning habits are constantly modelled
 There are constant opportunities for practice