Learning settings allow students and teachers to maximise their use of space.

The design of contemporary learning environments offers teachers and students varied ways to work and learn together.

The learning spaces are adaptable, allowing for “more flexible student groupings, closer relationships with students, and more diverse daily contacts” (Prain et al, 2015).

Designs using typology D (Dovey and Fisher 2014) offer a greater variety of affordances. Affordances are possible actions teachers and students can take in a space, using technology, and with each other (Young et al, 2019).

Teachers and students work together to create learning settings in learning environments. These settings are made with furniture across various locations to suit the lesson.

Teachers and students are guided by the learning modes when creating settings. The learning modes are a set of guiding principles. They describe the different ways in which learning occurs. Each mode requires students and teachers to be interacting differently with each other and with the learning space.