The availability of user-friendly tools for designing learning environments resulted in an innovative shift of design focus. This shift has been noticed from a user-centred, although passive and reactive, design approach to a participatory, at responsibility and self-directedness directed, design approach. This latter innovative and promising approach empowers co-designers (teachers and even learners) to actively participate in designing learning environments leading to higher learning outcomes. New pedagogical perspectives and approaches in which teachers (as domain experts) and learners are assumed to cooperate on a basis of equity and mutual responsibility will be offered a practical context for the implementation in powerful learning environments. In this article the potentials of learners as designers of their own learning environments are discussed. Support tools needed to play this role appropriately are discussed as well.
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