Evaluating 21st Century Learning Environments The Role of Evaluation as an Educational Space Planning Tool Sala-Oviedo, A | Imms, W. (2016) When an educational facility is to be built or refurbished, ideally a team of educators, designers and governing educational bodies’ representatives work together to ensure the facility reflects the educational institution’s beliefs, the needs of the teaching staff, and the desired learning outcomes of its students. The ultimate aim should ...
Other A new post occupancy evaluation tool for assessing the indoor environment quality of learning environments Soccio, P. (2016) The EduTool:IEQ is an evaluation tool that provides succinct and targeted information about the indoor environment quality (IEQ) of learning environments. It is suitable for the multidisciplinary groups involved in commissioning, designing, constructing, operating, maintaining and occupying school facilities. IEQ is an environmental issue concerned with the levels of lighting, ...
Other LEaRN Evaluation Module 2: The development of a tool for evaluating the indoor environment quality in learning spaces Soccio, P | Cleveland, B. (2016) Indoor environment quality (IEQ) is the combined impact of acoustics, lighting, thermal comfort and air quality on occupants inhabiting indoor spaces. It is the product of how indoor environments are designed, constructed, occupied and maintained. When IEQ is at substandard levels inside learning spaces, it can impact on how students ...
Evaluating 21st Century Learning Environments Understanding Affordances In Museum Education Context Villafranca, E. (2016) The notion of a space presenting a set of inherent affordances for a range of possible actions has gained some traction in recent discourse on learning spaces. However, there are few studies that investigate affordances in the museum context. Far too little attention has been paid to understanding how affordances ...
Evaluating 21st Century Learning Environments Re-Placing Flexibility: Flexibility in Learning Spaces and Learning Woodman, K. (2016) The need for flexible solutions in school design is almost a mantra in the history of education. Burke and Grosvenor (2008) Architecture and education are entwined. The recent resurgence of constructivist, student-centred learning has driven a renewed desire for flexible learning spaces. However, a clear and concise understanding of the ...
Evaluating 21st Century Learning Environments Finished beginnings: Finding space for time in collaborative teacher practice Bradbeer, C. (2015) The design of Modern Learning Environments (MLEs) in New Zealand primary schools follows a global shift in thinking about the relationships between pedagogy and space. MLEs that deliberately group larger cohorts of teachers and students signal a spatial intentionality for teacher collaboration. This study focuses on the nature of that ...
Evaluating 21st Century Learning Environments The empirical evaluation of the transition from traditional to New Generation Learning Spaces on teaching and learning Byers, T. (2015) The New Generation Learning Spaces (NGLS) project developed an empirical evidence-base to support the re-design of technology-enabled learning spaces, matched with a quasi-experimental evaluation of the effect on teaching and learning. This presentation will focus on the third stage of the NGLS study at the Anglican Church Grammar School (Churchie). ...
Evaluating 21st Century Learning Environments Developing new approaches to the evaluation of physical learning environments: A return to the origins of post-occupancy evaluation in environmental psychology Cleveland, B. (2015) This paper calls for new approaches to the evaluation of physical learning environments and suggests future directions for research in the field. Prior research across the primary, secondary and tertiary education sectors has revealed a variety of metrics by which the performance of educational facilities can be measured. However, if ...
Other Using video data to research pedagogic practices in new generation learning environments in schools: Development of a framework for analysing and presenting teacher practice Cleveland, B | Aberton, H. (2015) This paper discusses the use of video data to research pedagogic practices in new generation learning environments (NGLEs) in primary and secondary schools. Using video footage drawn from a collaborative research project between the University of Melbourne and the Victorian Department of Education and Early Childhood Development (2013), the paper ...
Other Designing learning spaces for interprofessional education in the anatomical sciences Cleveland, B | Kvan, T. (2015) This article explores connections between interprofessional education (IPE) models and the design of learning spaces for undergraduate and graduate education in the anatomical sciences and other professional preparation. The authors argue that for IPE models to be successful and sustained they must be embodied in the environment in which interprofessional ...