designing learning spaces to engage specific users populations

Florida State University, June 7-8, 2010Panel Two: Mark Freeman, Perry Dean Rogers | Partners Architects

Academic Learning Spaces:invention, (re)invention, innovation

invention of the case study room

Harvard Business School- 1952

student culture

collaborative pedagogy

knowledge creation

program convergence

paradigm shift

high expectations

technologically fluent

preference for social leaning

virtual and physical realm

student culture

collaborative pedagogy

centers of knowledge creationoriginal work produced from virtual, physical and multimedia collections

British Museum Reading Room and Georgia Tech, Commons West

program convergencenew partnerships with collocated service providers

divergence of teaching and learning spaces

fixed tablesmovable chairs

25-30 nsf/student

fixed tablesfixed chairs

22-25 nsf/student

auditorium seatstablet arms

18-22 nsf/student

instructor-director learning spaces

Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering

technology enabled active learninginteraction between teacher and student, and student to student

TEAL; physics, engineering, MIT

SCALE UP: Biological Sciences, University of Minnesota

student centered active learning environments for undergrad programs

Columbia Medical Center

technology enabled active learning

Personal Response Devices (“clickers”)

Real-time interaction

Transitioning from “clickers” to software interfaces for personal digital assistants

interaction

flexible labsreconfigurable central tables, hard-wired perimeter

University of Arkansas, Fayetteville

flexible classroomsreconfigurable tables, not hard-wired, laptop use

Morgan Hall, College of Wooster

Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering

self-directed learning

15-18 sf/personSize: 300-360 sf

20-30 sf/personSize: 400-600 sf

25-35 sf/personSize: 500-750 sf

INSTRUCTOR-DIRECTED LEARNING SELF-DIRECTED LEARNING

right-sizing learning spaces

collaborative study roomsvariety in size and furniture support different learning styles

Daemen College Research and Information Commons

Daemen College Research and Information CommonsUMass Amherst- group study U of Ark- team room

Georgia Tech- project room Clark University- collaboration room

Northwestern University Georgia tech

flexible study spaces- student ownership

Georgia Tech- Two West

Study booth- Northwestern University‘Frog Pod’-Texas Christian

collaborative lounge- Emory Cox Center

open learning environments

Georgia Tech- Commons East

pairs collaborative socialindividual

The University Forum, the Academic Commons at Clark University

The University Forum, the Academic Commons at Clark University

pairs

collaborative

socialindividual

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

Georgia TechDickinson College

the solitary reader