Digital Learning Environments, The Science of Learning, and the Relationship Between the Teacher and the Learner

Abstract

The relationship between teachers and their students is being increasingly mediated via educational technologies as described in the previous chapter. This increased use of technologies has implications for all levels of education, perhaps most evident in a higher education context where students are spending less time on campus and more time online than they did in the past. This chapter examines how research findings from the science of learning might be best used to help support learning as the relationship between teachers and learners evolves into the future. The chapter explores how the flexibility afforded by educational technologies is evident in the emergence of “flipped classes,” m..