For a learning environment to achieve its goals, there must be a dialogue between the physical and the
educational dimension in the form of the environment. The physical design must meet the educational definition
of a learning environment as well as the area of content that it is supposed to represent. The environment must
allow a variety of teacher/instructor-student/researcher interactions by offering a variety of “changing situations”
through which students can gain various different experiences. A learning environment should be flexible and
dynamic so as to be adaptable to the changing needs of the teaching-learning-evaluation processes. This
flexibility facilitates changes in the teacher-student interaction, and allows for the performance of various
teaching-learning methods such as: learning in a plenary session, peer learning, group learning, etc. It is also
important to provide easy access to required information for learners: a closed area with a book shelf will not
serve 21st century learners well. Designers of a learning environment need to include up-to-date technological
means that will allow individual learners, or groups of learners, to collaborate with others in the group and to
conduct frequent dialogue with the teacher/instructor. An environment should be formed that creates learning
“opportunities”; spaces that facilitate investigation, the posing of questions, and the allowing of the construction
of knowledge and skills. The interaction between environmental design, educational learning, and physical
design gives rise to “learning-oriented design”. A recent study (Barrett & Zhang, 2009) describe how learning
environment influences student achievements and provide school architects with recommendations for students
higher learning achievements.