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Towards a Smart Classroom Enabled Sustainability Education: A Conceptual Model

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This work proposes a conceptual model for integrating education for sustainable development in a smart classroom learning environment. This environment may support the education that enables a more sustainable society for all the students and actively promotes the cultivation of the students’ environmental awareness. The model, which has in its center the students and the teachers, consists of four core components, namely the infrastructure, the sustainability content, the evaluation – feedback and the motivation. Τhe smart classroom is viewed as a kind of system implemented in a school that could realize high learning experiences, high-quality content, and high teaching efficiency, focusing on sustainability. Furthermore, the proposed model implies that the integration of the sustainability educational part needs a holistic approach related to the classroom (educational programme, teaching methods and the infrastructure) instead of adding supplementary topics or themes on sustainability into an existing curriculum or educational projects that a smart classroom may offer.

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This work has been partially supported by UPRC (University of Piraeus Research Center).

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    Maria Eftychia Angelaki, Theodoros Karvounidis & Christos Douligeris

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Angelaki, M.E., Karvounidis, T., Douligeris, C. (2022). Towards a Smart Classroom Enabled Sustainability Education: A Conceptual Model. In: Auer, M.E., Tsiatsos, T. (eds) New Realities, Mobile Systems and Applications. IMCL 2021. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 411. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-96296-8_45

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