ABSTRACT
The introduction sets the context of the research: the rapid development of information and communication technologies (ICTs) is shifting the boundaries of educational possibilities, the growing importance of online learning, the spread of homeschooling experiences and Self-Organized Learning Environments of great educational effectiveness. These phenomena give the school system new unprecedented challenges.
This work aims at studying and empirically verifying how to foster the development of an innovative learning environment, how it is implemented and what its level of innovation is compared to traditional methods. The authors investigate the organizational variables of learning environments, the factors that make them innovative and to what extent. In particular, they investigate whether the introduction of a learning environment is favored as an alternative by top-down approaches or bottom-up approaches.
The book is divided into three parts: Part One is about learning environments; Part Two deals with self-organization in schools; Part Three concerns field research.
