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The Ambient Intelligent Classroom

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The third and final dimension of the proposed Ambient Intelligent (AmI)classroom relates to the education aspect and follows the social and technological aspects from the previous two chapters.

The roots of education are bitter,

but the fruit is sweet.

Aristotle

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Montebello, M. (2019). Educational Aspect. In: The Ambient Intelligent Classroom. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 840. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-21882-9_5

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