The practice of combining digital and face-to-face elements into blended learning courses is
becoming the new normal in higher education and offers a promising learning format. While …

Smart learning environments (SLEs) have gained considerable momentum in the last 20
years. The term SLE has emerged to encompass a set of recent trends in the field of …

In the pre‐pandemic world learning was most often onsite, in‐person and co‐located. This
was turned upside down during the pandemic where online suddenly became the 'new …

Positionality refers to the individual social and political context that creates a person's
identity, eg, race, class, gender, sexuality, ability, status, and how such markers influence the …

Background COVID pandemic resulted in an initially temporary and then long term closure
of educational institutions, creating a need for adapting to online and remote learning. The …

These days, companies including Higher Education Institutions can no longer afford not to
be innovative. They have to react with 4.0 concepts to secure their own existence. A future …

Designing for effective and efficient pedagogical interventions and orchestration in complex
technology-enhanced learning (TEL) ecosystems is an increasingly challenging issue …

Role assignment and group size are important design considerations for conducting
effective asynchronous online discussion (AOD). While these two design considerations …

The chapter introduces the concepts of hyper-hybridity and hyper-hybrid learning spaces by
analysing a case of cross-national student collaboration in hybrid learning spaces. In hyper …

Hybrid learning spaces are often associated with 'blended'education and defined by the
presence of a mediating technology. In this paper, we shift the focus from technology to …