Smart learning environments: A blend of ICT achievements and smart pedagogy for the world sustainable development

Abstract

In the context of a sustainable development the mitigation of the energy consumption could be achieved by the incorporation of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) as well as the exploitation of smart computing in every day sectors, formulating a smart society constituted by energy conscious citizens. According to this assumption a smart society is necessary to be built on foundations of a smart education which aims to orchestrate best practices and methods based on smart pedagogies, in order to accomplish optimized learning through the development of Smart Learning Environments (SLEs). This paper presents the emergency of developing SLEs as a robust solution for the humans’ well-being. It classifies the fundamental features of SLEs highlighted by the international literature the past decade, into affordances arising from services that come from both accelerating technological achievements and pedagogical issues regarding energy. It also provides conclusions that foster research to this direction.