ABSTRACT
This chapter deals with the literature concerning innovative learning environments. Fifteen significant contributions are described and five international case studies are analyzed as examples of best practice. The authors then identify 22 key variables of innovative learning environments, divided into four categories: actors, organization, learning and tools. The 22 variables (each with its own structure and relative measure) represent the basis for the construction of the framework proposed to measure the degree of innovation of learning environments. The framework is accompanied by a questionnaire for the measurement of a learning environment. The challenge is therefore the construction of learning environments that involve a multiplicity of actors, based on a flexible organization, designed on the key variables of learning and characterized by a high profile of technologies and equipment. The reader may also take advantage of a focus on the classes of the personalization of learning (standard, individualized and personalized), of the formalization of learning (formal, non-formal and informal), and a focus on the characteristics of teaching and learning in terms of objectives, levers, actions and processes.
