Learning outcomes

After completing the course students will understand:

- How learning environments are changing and mediated in education
- Theoretical foundations of collaborative and social learning environments in education
- The problems and challenges of digitalized learning environments
- The intertwining of formal and informal learning environments in everyday life
- The principles of designing learning environments

Contents

Learning environments are studied from the sociocultural perspective. Students get to know the basic ideas of learning support systems and learning tools and evaluate those critically in changing societal and cultural spheres. During the course students will make an analyses or development project of new learning environment in formal or informal learning settings.

Teaching methods

Teaching method	Contact	Online
Lectures	8 h	6 h
Independent work	121 h	0 h

Evaluation and evaluation criteria

Numeric 1-5.
Class attendance, readings and team-based project.

Study materials

A package of contemporary readings from academic journals and books.

Belongs to following study modules