Blended Learning in Smart Learning Environments

Abstract

It is already commonly accepted, that blended learning seems to be one of the modern and promising approaches to teaching and learning. Blended learning aims to integrate traditional learning with innovative means, such as e-learning, analytics, game-based learning, and open educational resources, in order to create a new learning environment aiming to enhance learning effectiveness, and enrich learning experience. In the meantime, as one important and applicable output of the smart environments research, the concept of smart learning environments has evolved with a number of successful applications. The aim of this paper is to argue, that blended learning concept can be viewed as a promising perspective for affective learning strategies inclusion into recently more and more popular smart learning environments.