The learning environment is acutely sensitive to the individual differences among the learners in it, including their prior knowledge. The learning environment devises programmes that demand hard work and challenge from all without excessive overload. The learning environment operates with clarity of expectations and deploys assessment strategies consistent with these expectations, there is strong emphasis on formative feedback to support learning. The learning environment strongly promotes "horizontal connectedness" across areas of knowledge and subjects as well as to the community and the wider world. Innovate the "pedagogical core" of the learning environment, whether the core elements (learners, educators, content and learning resources), the dynamics which connect them (pedagogy and formative evaluation, use of time and the organisation of educators and learners) or combinations of both.