A Systematic Review on Recent Pedagogical Principles for Designing Digital Learning Environments: Proposing the SAFE Model.
Background: While numerous models propose principles for designing digital learning environments (DLEs), most remain fragmented, unifaceted, or insufficiently grounded in pedagogical theory and empirical evidence. This fragmentation has left a clear gap—a lack of an integrated, empirically based fra...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Computer Assisted Learning Vol. 42; no. 2; pp. 1 - 20 |
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| Formato: | research systematic review tables/charts Journal Article |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Apr2026
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