Mapping the Learning Space

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An NLII Research Project

Educators, designers, technology providers, administrators, and theorists come to the teaching and learning territory with the same goals. Consensus in understanding is often hidden beneath different language, focus, experiences, understandings and practices. The visual maps of the current learning territory created at this site are meant to provide an entry into ideas, practices and an overview of the relationships between these areas in the higher education experience. The project, initiated by Colleen Carmean as an NLII 2002 Fellow, is a part of the ongoing NLII key theme and research work in learner-centered practices.

The NLII mission is to explore and synthesize the best practices of higher education in order to provide its members with solutions that redesign the teaching and learning field into one that is active and learner-centered, dynamic and lifelong, collaborative, cost-effective, high-quality, and accessible.

This site is not meant to be an all-encompassing encyclopedia of terms, but a growing, changing exploration of the transformative change happening in a transforming world. Each concept in the series of visual maps within this site are live links to resources, ideas, definitions and examples of that topic. Write us if you'd like a key concept included.

Quick Links:

• Psychology of LCPs
• Glossary of LCP

Enter learning space project:

• A Map of the Learning Space
• An Atlas-Sized Overview