In June, the School of Arts and Social Sciences held its first Learning and Teaching Awards. Our own Connie Tse and Dina Fainberg, lecturer in Modern History, presented the Digital Vault project, a student-produced database of historical documents, for which they won the runner-up prize. What is the Digital History Vault? The Digital Vault is…Continue Reading Students as Producers: the Digital History Vault
Back in May I attended the Learning Environments conference with colleague Dom Pates. The event was held at the Royal College of Physicians in Regents Park London, with academic and professional delegates from higher education, architect companies, developers, design agencies and furniture manufacturers. A distinguished set of presenters led us through a variety of case studies and research projects…Continue Reading The Design and Management of Learning Environments – ‘Integrated Approaches for Influencing Value and Change’
The day before the main Learning Environments conference, Dom Pates and I ran a new Pedagogy of Space workshop, subtitled; ‘Why Do We Put Furniture in a Learning Space?’ This is a new addition to our portfolio of active workshops focussed on learning environment design and development. Our brief to delegates was this, learning environment…Continue Reading Designing Learning Environments To Encourage Collaboration – An afternoon fringe event to the Learning Environments Conference