THE ROLE OF SMART MATERIALS IN BUILDING A CONTEMPORARY LEARNING ENVIRONMENT

Abstract

The educational systems in Egypt follow a trend to advance the educational process in all its axes, and the research discusses one of those axes, the most important of which is the educational environment, where the research problem lies in the lack of optimal utilization of modern technology for intelligent and interactive materials in building an attractive educational environment characterized by flexibility of its internal elements and in line with the physiological and psychological variables at that age. In order to achieve the objectives of the study, the research deals with the different systems of smart materials and their types, the needs of the educational environment in the new system and how to employ smart materials to create a contemporary educational environment that suits the new curricula and systems, and the research extracts a set of results and recommendations that could enhance the educational environments by using interactive smart materials.