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Technology and collaborative work environments are changing the design of learning spaces. 
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Two initiatives -- FLEXspace and the Learning Space Rating System -- are developing ways to review and share designs for active learning spaces.
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Designers are changing the form and function of traditional classrooms to help students engage in a different way.
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This project, instigated and championed by the University of Melbourne’s Associate Professor Peter Jamieson, is at the forefront of exploring how collaboration can be facilitated through design.
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I love this chair with storage space under it for the student's bag!
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The publication takes the reader on a ’walk through’ an educational institution, exploring the relationship between learning technologies and innovative examples of physical space design at each stage of the journey.
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How would you design school? What if you thought of it as anytime, anywhere learning spaces, would that be more conducive to learning? Barbara Bray looks at how design impacts learning and asks how would you design school? Via Fishtree Education
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High-tech, interactive "sandbox" classrooms don't have to cost big bucks.
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Meet the classrooms of the information technology haves and have-nots.
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The Computer Information Systems department at Bentley University (MA) transformed an old computer lab into a collaborative learning space known as the CIS Learning and Technology Sandbox.
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The purpose of this website is to share designs for state-of-the-art learning studios, teaching methods, and instructional materials that are based Via Daniel Tan
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May 23, 2013 10:34 AM
designs for state-of-the-art learning studios, teaching methods, and instructional materials that are based on more than a decade of discipline-based education research 
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July 11, 2013 3:38 PM
In 2012 Jill Sible (Associate Dean for Curriculum, Instruction and Advising, Professor of Biological Sciences, Virginia Tech) gave a talk at the CSUPERB symposium about SCALE-UP classrooms. Here is a site that shares designs for engaged, active and team-based learning.
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The University of Michigan's North Quadrangle Residential and Academic Complex was designed to fosterexperiential learning opportunities and encourage group engagement and student collaboration.
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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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March 4, 2014 9:15 AM
I'm generally a bit reticent about the idea of completely replacing teachers with machinery, but there are still teachers here, setting up the machines. Of course, they aren't being just replaced by machines in this model: the machines are just the repositories of information, like books are in traditional schools. The teachers are really being replaced by the groups of students helping each other learn. 
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March 4, 2014 9:59 PM
Great article on Sugata Mitra - the educator who put the computer in the wall in Calcutta.
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David Bill, who's spent the past three years helping teachers redesign classroom spaces, offers eight tips and tricks to remake your room.
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This forum brings together three leading contributors to the City of Melbourne's knowledge economy: Mr Geoff Lawler, Director City Planning and Infrastructur...
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What's the Story? The University of Edinburgh has redesigned learning spaces in response to learners' needs.
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Conclusions
The important point here is that investment in new or adapted physical classroom space should be driven by decisions to change pedagogy/teaching methods. This will mean bringing together academics, IT support staff, instructional designers and staff from facilities, as well as architects and furniture suppliers.
Second, I strongly believe in the statement that we shape our environments, and our environments shape us. Providing instructors with a flexible, well-designed learning environment is likely to encourage major changes in their teaching; stuffing them into rectangular boxes with rows of desks will do the opposite.
What is clear is that institutions now need to do some some hard thinking about online learning, its likely impact on campus teaching, and above all what kind of campus experience we want students to have when they can do much of their studying online. It is this thinking that should shape their investment in desks and chairs.
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W hereas most educators focus mainly on the Academic Environment, we place equal value upon the Physical and Emotional learning environments. A brand new facility would be awesome, but there is... Via Dr. Susan Bainbridge
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I am very impressed with what this school has done, transforming some traditional classrooms into a vibrant, multi-use and future-focused learning space that incorporates a lot of the features emerging in the literature and practice around modern learning environments - open-ness, flexibility, group space, personal space, quiet space etc. The National Institute of Building Sciences (NIBS) suggests there are seven broad types of library space: Collection space Public electronic workstation space User seating space Staff work space Meeting space Special use space Non-assignable space (including mechanical space) Via L2_S2S, Esther Casey, pru
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June 3, 2013 4:56 AM
Libraries have the potential to significantly enhance the development of life-long learners through excellent provision of expertise, resources and spaces. There are some great NZ examples referred to in this post. 
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June 7, 2013 9:06 PM
There are challenges for school libraries in balancing these spaces, particularly collection space. Once the overriding priority, have we gone too far in rationalising physical collection space and thus risked devaluing what is part of a library's unique value? Of course making virtual collections visible in our space is also important.
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June 6, 2013 5:56 PM
This article exemplifies that the retrofit of exisiting spaces is an efficient and cost-effective way to improve the classroom, without the need to build a new and expensive building.
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May 30, 2013 7:05 PM
This article mentions Learning Environments (LE) at the University of Melbourne.
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The classroom of the future is on your doorstep. We're getting slapped in the face with technology (sorry about that, partially my fault), flipped classroom models, and innovative ideas.
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Well-designed school classrooms can affect academic performance, says a new study by the University of Salford and Nightingale Associates.
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