Hybrid Learning Spaces

As we have come to accept the duality of physical and virtual learning spaces as a permanent feature of our educational landscape, we begin to question its validity. Is this really a dichotomy, or is it a continuum? Should this be the primary dimension around which we cluster educational experiences - how does it intersect and interact with other axes, such as formal-informal, vocational-recreational, open-closed, teacher-student? How do we adapt, as teachers, learners, designers, policy makers, to this changing landscape? How do we shape it to offer an optimal learning experience? Such questions led us to conduct a series of academic and professional events on the theme of Hybrid Learning Spaces (HLS) - spaces which challenge and defy the dichotomies above. This edited book collates some of the products of that endeavor, offering a multi-vocal, interdisciplinary approach to hybridity in education. It connects practical examples, design directives and theoretical analysis, combiningperspectives from technology research and development, educational theory and practice, architecture and space and product design. This book addresses researchers, practitioners, innovators and policy makers in education, technology and design, offering broad perspectives and then distilling practical insights in the form of design principles and patterns, pedagogical models, and predictions of future trends.

Dr. Yannis Dimitriadis is full professor of Telematics Engineering and ex Dean of the Doctoral School, Universidad de Valladolid, Spain. He is also the coordinator of the GSIC/EMIC research group, an interdisciplinary group, integrating over 20 researchers and practitioners from the field of Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) and Pedagogy. He has contributed for more than 25 years in understanding the phenomena, and supporting educational practitioners and technology designers, in carrying out innovations within hybrid modes of learning (e.g., collaborative and inquiry, contexts (e.g., formal and informal) and spaces (e.g., face-to-face, web-based and 3D worlds). His recent research work has focused on learning analytics and smart learning environments, alignment of learning design and learning analytics, design patterns, conceptual and technological support to the orchestration of computer-supported collaborative learning processes, active pedagogies at scale, and across-spaces (Web, 3D worlds and augmented reality) learning. He has participated in more than 50 competitive research projects on technology-enhanced learning, co-authored more than 100 journal papers and 215 conference papers, and organized several workshops and symposia, at ECTEL, CSCL, ISLS, etc. Dr. Dimitriadis is also a senior member of IEEE, member of ISLS, and spent his most recent sabbatical year (2017-2018) at Berkeley, University of Edinburgh, and EPFL.

Christian Köppe is a researcher, educator and pattern evangelist. His current research is on constructive alignment of graduate level outcomes in long-running assignments, exemplified by IncrementalGrading. He also works at the Freudenthal Institute at Utrecht University as teacher educator with focus on Computer Science Education and as educator at the talent-program 'U-Talent' for students of secondary education. Christian is emeritus board member of the Hillside Group, an organization which promotes design patterns as a way of explicating and communicating expert design knowledge in various areas (e.g. educational design). He published more than 50 papers on educational patterns and served as pc-member and co-organizer of several conferences. Christian started, together with Dr. Christian Kohls from TH Cologne, the EduPLoP workshop series, which formed the base for many follow-up publications and projects. The topics of the first two workshops were Assessment Design and Hybrid Pedagogy. The latter workshop also led to the workshop on Hybrid Learning Spaces at the ECTEL conference 2019 and in consequence to the publication of this book. Besides research and education, Christian loves making music (both programmed and hand-made).