Designing Hybrid Learning Environments and Processes: Interactive Communication Tools for Active Learning (PoliMI SpringerBriefs)

✍ Scribed by Andrea Manciaracina

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 2022
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 147
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This volume explores the relationship between space, pedagogy, and technology, with a particular focus on the latter since it is the connecting element that relates to all analysed contexts. The learning experience is investigated and supported by a review of works by referenced authors, underlining the active learning approach that can create better alliances among users and redefine the role of the teacher as a director and a facilitator. The volume offers a conceptualisation of learning technologies for innovative learning environments by creating a grid of technologies for active approaches. Then, it reflects on the comparison between the on-site and online learning environments, focusing on a stressful context. It offers and discusses an instructional design tool that supports teachers in designing hybrid learning contexts. Practitioners who wish to reframe technology in teaching using both digital and physical resources will find it very inspiring.

✦ Table of Contents

Foreword
Interactive Communication Tools for Active Learning
Preface
Contents
1 Towards Innovation
1.1 Introduction
1.1.1 Politecnico di Milano and Innovative Teaching
1.1.2 COVID-19 Health Emergency
1.1.3 Premises
1.1.4 How to Read This Book
1.2 Research Statements and Objectives
1.3 Research Methodology: Research Type, Phases and Applied Methods
References
2 Literature Review
2.1 Higher Education and the Need for Change
2.1.1 The Learning Experiences
2.2 Pedagogy, Space and Technology
2.2.1 PST Framework
2.3 Pedagogy: Active Learning and Technology-Enabled Active Learning (TEAL)
2.4 Space: New Spaces for New Learning Approaches
2.5 Technology: Technology for Learning Environments/Educational Technologies
2.5.1 Educational Technologies’ Affordances
References
3 Learning Environments and Technology
3.1 Innovative Learning Environment Case Studies
3.1.1 On Distance Learning Environments
3.2 Field Research: Politecnico’s Innovative Classroom
3.2.1 The Central Role of the Space
3.2.2 New Policies in Innovative Hybrid Processes in Politecnico
3.3 Active Learning Environment Monitoring: Educafé
3.4 Use of Technologies in a Stressful Context: The “Distance” Teaching of Politecnico di Milano During the COVID-19 Emergency
3.5 Technological Communication Tools
3.5.1 On-site Technologies
3.5.2 Online Technologies
References
4 Critical Elements to Innovate Learning Environments
4.1 The Incompleteness of the PST Framework
4.2 The Central Role of Space
4.3 New Opportunities Offered by Educational Technologies
4.4 Education as a Hybrid Process
4.5 The Need for Guidelines to Design Future Educational Formats
References
5 How to Design Learning Using Technology and Users’ Needs?
5.1 Scenarios: On-site and Online Scenarios
5.1.1 The Six Scenarios
5.2 A Tool for Conceptualising Technological Educational Set-ups
5.2.1 The Scenarios’ Set-ups
5.3 Performative Co-design Activities with Teachers Using the Tool
5.3.1 Teachers’ Set-ups
5.4 Autonomous Use of the Tool by Users
5.4.1 Discussion
References
6 Conclusions
6.1 Discussion of the Research
6.2 Research Contribution and Generalisation
6.3 Future Prospects for Designing Hybrid Learning Environments
References