By utilizing both mobile and cloud-based technology, the SMILE Consortium provides an open platform for creating newlearningenvironments that enable Classroom 3.0.
As part of this agreement Nokia is developing applications and new Mobile technologies offering access to information and enrich learningenvironments at global level.
The current discussion about 21st century skills leads classrooms and other learningenvironments to encourage the development of core subject knowledge as well as new media literacies, critical and systems thinking, interpersonal and self-directional skills.
As a result of these, along with the competency-based learningenvironments that all of the models will be pushing, there will also need to be new thinking on how to evaluate these models.