Evaluating 21st Century Learning Environments Engagement within interest-driven learning environments Shapiro, B. (2015) This paper develops a theory of short term, shared engagement accompanied by a spatial notation system in open ended, interest driven learning environments to support, extend and assess interest-driven and connected learning (Ito et al., 2009; Crowley & Barron, 2014) across everyday, informal and formal boundaries. It simultaneously introduces the ...
Evaluating 21st Century Learning Environments Confusing messages: Is the modern learning environment an example of idealized curricula or disruptive innovation? Wells, A. (2015) Despite global commissioning of new school designs, there is a body of literature (Lackney, 2002; Moore & Lackney, 1993; Nair, 2002; Nair & Fielding, 2005; Tanner, 2001; Taylor, 2002; Wolff, 2002) that documents the challenges that environmental designers encounter when they endeavour to design for educational purpose. One difficulty has ...
Evaluating 21st Century Learning Environments Making the Space for Space: The Effect of the Classroom Layout on Teacher and Student Usage and Perception of One-to- One Technology Byers, T | Imms, W. (2014) Today, a significant proportion of Australian secondary school students have some level of access to digital technology through one-to-one or BYOD programs. This ubiquitous access to devices connected through wireless network can create a technology-enabled learning environments (TELE). The teacher-student connectivity of a TELE has the potential to facilitate more ...
Evaluating 21st Century Learning Environments Making the Case for Space: The Effect of Learning Spaces on Teaching and Learning Byers, T | Imms, W | Hartnell-Young, E. (2014) An explanatory, mixed method study examined the impact of learning spaces on teachers’ pedagogy, student engagement and student learning outcomes in a technology-rich school setting. Its quasi-experimental design allowed examination of differences in these variables between two settings ‐ ‘traditional’ classrooms, and ‘new generation learning spaces’ (NGLS). Results from quantitative ...
Evaluating 21st Century Learning Environments The evaluation of physical learning environments: a critical review of the literature Cleveland, B | Fisher, K. (2014) This article critically reviews the methodologies and methods that have been used for the evaluation of physical learning environments. To contextualize discussion about the evaluation of learning spaces, we initially chart the development of post-occupancy evaluation (POE) for non-domestic buildings. We then discuss the recent evolution of POE into the ...
Other Not a waste of space: professional development for staff teaching in New Generation Learning Spaces de la Harpe, B | Mason, T | McPherson, M | Koethe, E | Faulkner, N. (2014) The project responded to the critical need to focus on improving teaching in [Next] Generation Learning Spaces, since billions of dollars have been spent on designing or retrofitting these spaces. Next Generation Learning Spaces are specifically designed to increase active learning and to support a more student-centred approach to teaching ...
Other Designing for adaptation: The school as socio-spatial assemblage Dovey, K | Fisher, K. (2014) Over the last century we have seen a slow transformation of the architecture of school classrooms in response to changing pedagogical theory and practice. A shift from teacher-centred to student-centred learning is accompanied by the move towards a more ‘open’ plan with new spatial types, interconnections and modes of adaptation. ...
Evaluating 21st Century Learning Environments Transforming the twenty-first-century campus to enhance the net-generation student learning experience: using evidence-based design to determine what works and why in virtual/physical teaching spaces Fisher, K | Newton, C. (2014) The twenty-first century has seen the rapid emergence of wireless broadband and mobile communications devices which are inexorably changing the way people communicate, collaborate, create and transfer knowledge. Yet many higher education campus learning environments were designed and built in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries prior to wireless broadband networks. ...
Other Sustainability vs. pedagogy: synergies and tensions to be resolved in the design of learning environments Fisher, K | Singleton, G. (2014) The HERDSA 2014 sub-theme ‘embracing challenges and opportunities for higher education in a globalised world’ seeks to explore the likely challenges and opportunities for Higher Education in a globalised world and how to meet these creatively and positively and make good use of opportunities offered. This paper examines the triggers ...
Future Proofing Schools Communicating succinct and targeted information, to a multidisciplinary audience, about the indoor environment quality inside Australian primary and middle school classrooms Soccio, P. (2014) This research project was conducted as part of the Australian Research Council Linkage grant Future Proofing Schools. The project aim was to investigate how a multidisciplinary audience – made up of stakeholders involved in commissioning, designing, constructing, operating, maintaining and occupying school facilities – could be provided with succinct and ...