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Three colleges transform aging buildings and classrooms into smart, collaborative learning spaces—without breaking the budget. Here's how. 
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Promoting student cooperation and teamwork. Exploring tools for teamwork.
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Penn State Harrisburg updated its campus with a cornucopia of collaborative classrooms and study spaces, featuring modern furniture and the latest audiovisual and interactive technologies. See how.
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The University of Canterbury is about to go live with a new high-tech security system designed to speed up response times to critical incidents like natural disasters and on-campus
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Casual learning areas with wall nooks to sleep in at all hours and study spaces that look like coffee shops are part of a billion-dollar plan to keep university students on campus.
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Future Learning Spaces: The Potential and Practice of Learning 2.0 in Higher Education (9781466628519): Charlotte Holland, Miriam Judge: Book Chapters Via Daniel Tan
Daniel Tan's curator insight,
February 15, 2013 3:28 AM
Higher education institutions are promoting the integration of online technologies in teaching and learning as an attempt to provide flexible modes of delivery, to diversify the profile of students accessing higher education and to facilitate the development of life-long learning skills. The availability of personal digital devices, such as wireless laptops and mobile phones, and campus-wide Internet connectivity has the potential to enhance or detract from learning in higher education. This chapter explores the trend towards online learning in higher education, examining the potential of and current practices in the integration of Information and Communication Technologies, focusing on the use of Web 2.0 technologies in teaching and learning, and presenting some of the challenges that arise in the integration of online technologies and implementation of Learning 2.0 in higher education.
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WEST CHESTER, Pa. — In 11 years of teaching, ditching students’ desk chairs in favor of yoga balls is one of the best decisions Robbi Giuliano thinks she ever made.
Peter Mellow's insight:
Yet at the University of Melbourne, these Swiss Balls are banned for staff use due to health and safety risk! You might fall off and hurt yourself.
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In a pilot study by the University of Salford and architects, Nightingale Associates, it was found that the classroom environment can affect a child’s academic progress over a year by as much as 25%.
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As debate over education reform sizzles, and as teachers valiantly continue trying to do more with less, a new study suggests that it might be worth diverting at least a little attention from what’s going on in classrooms to how those spaces are...
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Six cost-effective trends and tips to help educational facilities meet and exceed goals. Via Elizabeth at Forrer Business Interiors
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Peter Mellow's insight:
Now, places outside the classroom are more useful than ever as learning spaces, for two reasons. first, portable technology means you don’t have to be near a power outlet to work and wi-fi brings online access to the remotest corner of campus. Second, college work now involves a lot of group projects. More assignments reflect and teach real-world knowledge economy skills: collaborating in pairs, small groups, and teams.
Elizabeth at Forrer Business Interiors's curator insight,
December 17, 2012 9:55 AM
Now, places outside the classroom are more useful than ever as learning spaces, for two reasons. first, portable technology means you don’t have to be near a power outlet to work and wi-fi brings online access to the remotest corner of campus. Second, college work now involves a lot of group projects. More assignments reflect and teach real-world knowledge economy skills: collaborating in pairs, small groups, and teams.
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How does the physical environment contribute to children’s learning? Learning environments are one of the key practices outlined in the Early Years Learning Framework (EYLF). A carefully and thoughtfully prepared environment however, is also integral to many of the other EYLF Principles, Practices and Outcomes.
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Editor's note: The following is an excerpt from Thinking Through Project-Based Learning: Guiding Deeper Inquiry by Jane Krauss and Suzie Boss. It was published this month by Corwin.
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In the last decade, during which personal computers have proliferated in the office, researchers have paid increased attention to lighting. Several studies have investigated the relationship of modern office lighting to the visual health, satisfaction and productivity of office workers.
The American Society of Interior Designers found that 68% of employees complain about the light in their offices.
A Silicon Valley study pointed out that 79% of VDT users want better lighting.
This degree of dissatisfaction is difficult to ignore. It confirms the need to identify the best methods of lighting the computerized office. Via Daniel Tan
Daniel Tan's curator insight,
February 15, 2013 3:25 AM
The impact of lighting on productivity - now you will see the light for why you are not as productive as expected!
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Using floor-to-ceiling projection and a banks of 80-inch LED displays, the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania has created a new classroom collaboration system designed to connect students nearly 3,000 miles apart.
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Can interactive devices go beyond simply jazzing up lectures and actually transform what happens in the classroom?
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Touchscreen technology is turning digital signs into interactive route planners, giving users customized directions based on everything from time of day to weather conditions.
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Cutting -edge learning spaces are designed with flexibility and collaboration in mind, right down to the modular tables and chairs.
A good article from Campus Technology November 2012
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A new residence hall, La Casa, offers commuter students from Chicago’s South Side a safe, quiet place to eat, sleep and study.
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Around the world, many educators have been experimenting to create the ideal learning space. So what have they discovered?
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The Milwaukee School of Engineering recently opened a new state-of-the-art laboratory for its industrial engineering students. Portions of the laboratory were donated by Racine-based Ruud Lighting and Forrer Business Interiors of Milwaukee. Via Elizabeth at Forrer Business Interiors
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As teaching and learning styles evolve, the furniture found in classrooms adapts to keep up. Via Elizabeth at Forrer Business Interiors
Jeraine ng xiu li's curator insight,
March 19, 2016 6:37 AM
1) I agreed with what the author is talking about as time have changed the things 21st century people have is different from the things 20st century have. 2)Yes as more and more advance things are building in the future there will be even more thing that would change or become better. 3)The future people would take advantage of things that are getting better now as it will be more advanced in the future. 4)The future generation 5)Yes 
jeevita d/o thurairajoo's curator insight,
March 20, 2016 3:54 AM
I agree with this author about the furniture used in classrooms then and now. I can foresee things to be different in future. i can predict that in the future technology will be even advanced that there might be chairs designed with tables. This will benefit the students and the teachers as there will be more space in the classrooms and it is easier for the students to have group discussions I cant say that this is truly foolproof as students can misuse use these. They can dismentle the table from the chair and using it for other foolish activities like playing it with their friends..etc.
Jeraine ng xiu li's curator insight,
March 20, 2016 10:51 AM
1) I agreed with what the author is talking about as time have changed the things 21st century people have is different from the things 20st century have. 2)Yes as more and more advance things are building in the future there will be even more thing that would change or become better. 3)The future people would take advantage of things that are getting better now as it will be more advanced in the future. 4)The future generation 5)Yes
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Cutting-edge learning spaces are designed with flexibility and collaboration in mind, right down to the modular tables and chairs.
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