Learning Spaces

The Learning Spaces Project challenges the design of classroom and informal study areas, assessing how learning space design affects learning, teaching, assessment and retention.
To this end, QA165/175 and the adjoining circulation area have been refurbished as digitally connected, flexible spaces for learning and teaching. The project is driven by staff who recognise that our learners have different requirements of their academic experience – they collaborate, use digital technologies, multi-task, and are becoming less patient with teacher-centric styles of education still prevalent in HE.

Resources

Collaboration in innovative learning spaces

Teaching and Learning ideas for innovative spaces

Learning Spaces Project Room Guides

Evaluation

Our evaluation, informing the university’s decisions about design and spending on future learning spaces, aims to:

• Understand how learning spaces impact upon teaching and learning;
• Explore whether the design of this learning space meets the academic needs of staff and students and whether the spaces are used in unintended or discipline specific ways;
• Consider what improvements could be made to the design of the spaces;
• Understand how effective learning designs may be shared with other users;
• Evaluate the benefits and limitations of learning designs used within the context of teaching and adjoining student spaces;
• Produce evidence to inform strategic decision-making for resources deployment, policy and strategy.

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