Academic Learning Spaces: invention, (re)invention, innovation
designing learning spaces to engage specific users populations
Florida State University, June 7-8, 2010 Panel Two: Mark Freeman, Perry Dean Rogers | Partners Architects
invention of the case study room
Harvard Business School- 1952
paradigm shift student culture
collaborative pedagogy
knowledge creation
program convergence
student culture high expectations
technologically fluent
preference for social leaning
virtual and physical realm
collaborative pedagogy
centers of knowledge creation original work produced from virtual, physical and multimedia collections
British Museum Reading Room and Georgia Tech, Commons West
program convergence new partnerships with collocated service providers
divergence of teaching and learning spaces
instructor-director learning spaces
auditorium seats tablet arms 18-22 nsf/student
fixed tables fixed chairs
fixed tables movable chairs
22-25 nsf/student
25-30 nsf/student
Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering
technology enabled active learning interaction between teacher and student, and student to student
TEAL; physics, engineering, MIT
student centered active learning environments for undergrad programs
SCALE UP: Biological Sciences, University of Minnesota
technology enabled active learning
Columbia Medical Center
interaction
Personal Response Devices (“clickers”)
Real-time interaction
Transitioning from “clickers” to software interfaces for personal digital assistants
flexible labs reconfigurable central tables, hard-wired perimeter
University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
flexible classrooms reconfigurable tables, not hard-wired, laptop use
Morgan Hall, College of Wooster
self-directed learning
Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering
right-sizing learning spaces
INSTRUCTOR-DIRECTED LEARNING
15-18 sf/person Size: 300-360 sf
20-30 sf/person Size: 400-600 sf
SELF-DIRECTED LEARNING
25-35 sf/person Size: 500-750 sf
collaborative study rooms variety in size and furniture support different learning styles
Daemen College Research and Information Commons
Georgia Tech- project room
Clark University- collaboration room
U of Ark- team room UMassDaemen Amherst-College group study Research and Information Commons
flexible study spaces- student ownership
Northwestern University
Georgia tech
Georgia Tech- Two West
‘Frog Pod’-Texas Christian
Study booth- Northwestern University
collaborative lounge- Emory Cox Center
open learning environments
pairs
collaborative individual
Georgia Tech- Commons East
social
The University Forum, the Academic Commons at Clark University
individual social
pairs collaborative
The University Forum, the Academic Commons at Clark University
reinventing open carrels
Clark University, Academic Commons at the Goddard Library
collaborative computer stations
Hexagonal tables- UC San Diego
Herman Miller- Daemen College
social learning- food and coffee
incidental learning
University of Maryland, Baltimore
learning in the landscape
Dickinson College
Georgia Tech
the solitary reader