Fast improvements in computing power and Artificial Intelligence (AI) algorithms enable us
to automate important decisions that shape our everyday lives, and drive workplace …

This paper provides a summary account of Activity-Centred Analysis and Design (ACAD).
ACAD offers a practical approach to analysing complex learning situations, in a way that can …

This paper draws on a series of studies of design teams working on the creation and
evaluation of novel complex learning spaces: spaces in which students' activity is situated …

Innovative learning spaces have emerged in response to the influx of educational
technologies and new social practices associated with twenty‐first‐century learning. Whilst …

Situative theories of learning challenge the notion of learning as a singular cognitive pursuit.
However, the relations between the designed environment and situated learning activity are …

Contemporary educational practices have been calling for pedagogical models that
foreground fexibility, agency, ubiquity, and connectedness in learning. Tese models have, in …

Highlights•The (re) design of environments for learning is a major trend sha** education.•
Educational design is ill-equipped to connect conceptual and material structure.•Designing …

In our chapter, we challenge the typically narrow structures that govern 'student feedback'on
courses (eg, standardised surveys like the UK's National Student Survey), by adopting an …

The circumstances in which humans live and learn are subject to constant change. Given
these cycles of change, educational designers (teachers, instructional designers, and …

Despite a commonly held assumption that our environment shapes what we do, a review of
the literature reveals a paucity of empirical research exploring how the designed …