Question

Summarize the following passage , to not more
than one-third of the original. Give it a suitable
title.
When the study of the learning environment
is used as a means of describing learning
situations, it improves our understanding of
various influences on learning outcomes. In
particular, by understanding influences at the
level of concrete behaviour, one can more easily
determine appropriate interventions for changing
the environment. A learning environment
comprises "all of tlie physical surroundings,
psychosocial or emotional conditions, and social
or cultural influences" present in a learning
situation (Hiemstra, 1991, p. 8).
Both the physical and the social aspects of
a learning environment influence student
participation and satisfaction (Fulton, 1991) and
are believed to affect the learning of the people
who function in them. These effects can be
positive or negative (Vahala & Winston, 1994). In
fact, learning environments have effects beyond
learning to include socialization, particularly
when certain patterns of interaction occur across
many classes in a curricular program. Student
and faculty come to expect and to see as
normative some actions and not others (i.e., what
one should or should not do). For example, when
students' seats are bolted to the floor facing a
lectern, student collaboration can be inhibited. If,
in combination with this physical influence,
instruction is almost entirely lecture-based,
student can come to resist different teaching
methods such as student-led discussion or small
group work (e.g., Waite, Jackson, & Diwan, 2002).
While the learning environment exists in
social space, it is rarely explicitly stated nor are
its features static. Instead, the learning
environment is negotiated through
student-student and instructor-student
interaction, and its characteristics, in turn, have
a socializing effect (Rorty, 1999). Communication
patterns are key, since it is by creating shared
understanding that teaching and learning occur.
Communication patterns that become typical
provide not just information, but represent and
maintain social order, implying and prescribing
the way things are done or should be done — and
who can do them — "around here" (Burke, 1966;
Goffman, 1959; Mead, 1934).

Answer 1

Study Environment

The factors in the environment are great influence as well as a distraction of any one from study. A study environment needs quiet and calm place where one can relax his or her mind and all the concentration can be given on the study. Both mental and physical needs should be satisfied as well as emotional needs also play a vital role in concentrating studies.

Answer 2

Learning outcomes depends upon the learning environment influencing our understanding.

The learning environment consists of an emotional, physical, and psychosocial conditions along with cultural and social influences.

Social and physical aspects impact highly the student participation and satisfaction and affects learning.

It is also beyond that like socialization and interaction pattern.

The learning environment exists in social space. Communication patterns are key to it.