Learning Environments

Learning environments include the physical spaces, digital platforms, technologies, and institutional supports that instructors and students use every day. They affect how students access course materials, take part in learning, complete assessments, and communicate with instructors and classmates.

Many of these conditions are set at the institutional level rather than by individual instructors. Knowing how the available systems and supports work can help instructors plan around constraints, respond to access needs, and make better use of the tools and spaces available to them.

The resources below focus on institutional learning technologies, digital teaching environments, accessibility supports, and other practical aspects of the environments where teaching and learning occur.