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162 9 Learning Space Design
9.4.3 The Constituent Elements of Smart Learning
Environments

As shown in Fig. 9.9, the constituent elements of smart learning environments
include six components resources, tools, learning communities, teaching commu-
nity, learning ways, and teaching ways.

• Smart learning environments mainly consist of six elements of learning, namely
resources, intelligent tools, learning community, teaching community, learning
ways, and teaching ways.
• Learners and teachers interrelate and interact with the other four elements in
teaching and learning, so as to promote the effective learning of learners. If
learning and teaching were removed, smart learning environments cannot be
regarded as learning environments.
• The occurrence of effective learning is the mutual result of individual knowl-
edge construction and group knowledge construction. Learning community
emphasizes interaction, collaboration, and exchange of learners, while teaching
community is a continuum where teachers learn together, work collaboratively
to pursue continuing professional development.
• Learning resources and intelligent tools provide support of both learning com-
munity and teaching community. The development of learning community and
teaching community is inseparable from the mutual effects of resources and
tools. All kinds of intelligent tools provide comprehensive support of the “in-
telligence” of the learning environments. At the same time, learning community
and teaching community advance the evolution of resources and tools.

Fig. 9.9 System model of virtual leaning space