There are many different types of powerful learning environments. Dr. David Jonassen has identified several attributes of meaningful and engaging learning environments that technology can assist in creating. Click on a label in the diagram below to learn about that attribute of effective learning environments.

This statement below was taken from a letter written by Dr. David Jonassen and is food for thought. "Based on the foregoing contrasts, it should be clear that there exists a diversity of opinions and beliefs about our field. That diversity can be perceived as a strength or a weakness. So, the real question for our field (as with society as a whole) is how we deal with diversity. We can create arbitary classifications for the purpose of excluding members from our community, or we can accommodate diverse opinions and work toward a shared understanding of what works best in a larger community. I believe that we need to learn how to use different perspectives as lenses for understanding different aspects of the human condition. So, I personally teach objectivist, constructivist, social, and critical methods, because our field is complex and ill-structured. Real instructional design problems are situated in and emergent from specific contexts and, for most instructional design problems, there are many alternative solutions, each one of which may work as well as any other. As a field, we have always sought a single set of generalized rules or principles for describing, predicting, and solving most design problems. Perhaps it is time to admit that we have been following the wrong purpose. And rather than drawing conceptual lines in the sand, we should examining the whole beach.