Digital learning: making a case for space. Innovative learning, its social forms, and its spatial dimension

Abstract

The COVID-19 Pandemic has shifted learning from a physical-spatial practice to a virtual-spatial one. Suddenly, students and teachers moved to their homes and from there, they've adapted the learning-teaching practice using a set of digital platforms such as Zoom, MS Teams, YouTube, and even Facebook to quickly respond to the crisis. The aim of this paper is to give an overview of the correlation between different types of spatiality and specific pedagogical approaches in order to shed a light on the spatial consequences of digital learning when added into physical learning spaces. In the last decades, there has been a paradigm shift from teaching to learning. This transformation depends on the one hand pedagogy, and on other hand, the spatial environment.