The lecturer focuses on the main conceptual framework and the crucial components of the electronic learning environments. Furthermore; he will offer a definition of the concept of electronic learning environments and present an interdisciplinary approach regarding the learning environment in the 21-th century. The main theses of the presentation:

1. Electronic learning environments are not the alternatives to traditional learning environments. Electronic learning environments are the newest form of the cognitive habitus and the recent everyday environments for teaching and learning.

2. The emblematic screen-surface of the electronic learning environments is the result of a unique metamorphosis of the Donaldian[1] external symbolic storage, a transformation occuring in several well identifiable steps.

3. Electronic learning environments provide two sets of means (toolkits for facilitating learning). The first set of means is presented by the key-characteristics of the multimedia computer. The second set of means includes the characteristic features of the networked computer.

4. One possible system-oriented approach to the electronic learning environments is the application of the ?mesoworld model?, which implicate that the school is only an imbedded system between a vertical and horizontal information universe.

5. Teaching is - above all ? a performance art which unfolds in real time. Teaching is the act of constructing knowledge in a dialogic social environment - face to face or electronically mediated. The basically vertical aspect of culture transmission needs personal touch and interpersonal context.

6. The acquisition and application of the conceptual apparatus and the vocabulary of the evolutional psychology and cognitive science can enhance didactic thinking and thereby positively impact the discipline of pedagogy and within it: didactical thinking and reasoning.

7. The cognitive habitus of today?s society is an extremely complex, interactive symbol system which clearly leaves its mark on the learning environments. If we want to successfully respond to the challenges of the information society, we should reconsider and revise our knowledge concerning learning environments.