Evaluating 21st Century Learning Environments Cultivating Learners in Complex Environments Miles, J. (2016) Economic and educational reforms encourage adults to return to study to optimise their contribution to Australia’s place in an increasingly competitive global market. Yet the features of adult learning spaces that are discussed in much of the literature relate to physical structure and architectural design, or to distance and mobility. ...
Evaluating 21st Century Learning Environments What's working? Informing education theory, design and practice through learning environment evaluation Mitcheltree, H | Cleveland, B | Imms, W. (2016) These proceedings report on events that occurred on the 3rd of June 2016 at the University of Melbourne, when post-graduate researchers from Australia, the Philippines, Taiwan and New Zealand gathered to share their developing knowledge of innovative learning environments. The event, focussed on the evaluation of learning spaces, encompassed a ...
Evaluating 21st Century Learning Environments New generation learning environments: are students with hearing difficulties included Munro, L. (2016) New generation learning environments (NGLEs) are proliferating in schools worldwide, driven by technology innovations and globalisation (Griffen, Care & McGaw, 2012). Between 2008 and 2012 in the state of Victoria, Australia, numerous schools were built and/or refurbished embracing the principles of open-plan design in the State and Catholic sectors under ...
Evaluating 21st Century Learning Environments A Situational Profile for Learning Environment Evaluation Oliver, G. (2016) This chapter reports on research being undertaken to develop a model to facilitate the evaluation of innovative education practices in innovative learning environments. The research is based on the premise that better judgements about evaluation tools, techniques and methods will be made if people are able to tailor evaluative approaches ...
Evaluating 21st Century Learning Environments Developing New Learning Environments: Co-Constructing Innovation in Education Practice Oliver, G. (2016) This chapter proposes a model for the evaluation of the effectiveness of innovative learning environments in supporting the achievement of innovative educational practices. The purpose of such evaluation is to inform improved practice in the future. A review of the literature suggests that the current models of evaluation in this ...
Evaluating 21st Century Learning Environments What Works? Emerging Issues Osborne, L. (2016) Diversification and expansion of global higher education in the 21st century has resulted in learning environments in architectural education that can no longer be sustained by the Beaux-Arts Atelier model. Budgetary pressures, surging student numbers, extensions to traditional curricula, evolving competency standards and accreditation requirements, and modified geographical and pedagogical ...
Evaluating 21st Century Learning Environments What Works: Changing Practice When Spaces Change Osborne, M. (2016) In 2010 and 2011 Christchurch, New Zealand suffered a series of catastrophic earthquakes that left tens of thousands of city buildings damaged and hundreds of people dead. Many public buildings across the city, including schools, were damaged beyond repair and the programme to rebuild them has resulted in one of ...
Evaluating 21st Century Learning Environments Changing practice in innovative learning environments: What's Working? Osborne, M. (2016) Two recent influences on the development of school learning environments in New Zealand have been the Christchurch earthquakes and the New Zealand Ministry of Education’s ten-year property strategy. Following the 2011 Christchurch earthquakes, the New Zealand government embarked on an ambitious plan to regenerate 115 schools with an overall investment ...
Evaluating 21st Century Learning Environments Changing the Architecture of Educating Robinson, N. (2016) School design occurs within a complicated matrix of divergent aspirations of the stakeholder community, changing ideas on education pedagogy and uncertainty on the most effective environments to facilitate learning. There are many contributors in the school design processes, each with their own objectives, creating a challenging climate for the architects ...
Evaluating 21st Century Learning Environments Evaluating Learning Environments for the Inclusion of Students with Hearing Difficulties Rose-Munro, L. (2016) This chapter outlines an interdisciplinary approach to research and evaluation that accounts for technological innovations, pedagogical shifts and new legislative requirements for inclusion. Utilizing a mixed method multiple case study involving three students with hearing difficulties in one New Generation Learning Environment, the research described in this chapter explores issues ...