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…
Posts By James Rutherford
Designing Learning Environments To Encourage Collaboration – An afternoon fringe event to the Learning Environments Conference
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…
Paper on the Effective Use of Video, a Literature Review
It is fair to say that the utilisation of video can provide significant and important differences to learning and teaching, especially when today’s students have a wide diversity of educational experiences and expectations. For example,…
New Active Learning Space for Journalism
Background The academic vision was for a contemporary learning environment that should be modelled on a broadcast newsroom designed for multiple channels, by integrating the work flow across TV, radio, online and print. The approach…
‘We Are Our Choices’ – Learning To Make Good Decisions
Scenario Based Learning Conference, hosted by St. George’s, University of London in October 2018 If you would like to see some of the key presentations, they have been published here, opens in You Tube. I attended…
Learning is a Social Process
Outside of my role here at City, I work as consultant in learning space design and development. One of my projects was to create a CPD package for a furniture manufacturer, with whom I have…
The Design & Management of Learning Environments –The Student Experience
#LearnEnvConf Thursday 17 May 2018 https://workplacetrends.co/learning-environments-2/ Held at Kings College London, this event looked at the key topic of how a modern and diverse learning environment can attract, engage and retain its students and staff….
Is It Time To Ban Laptops In Meeting Rooms? Part of a Bigger Picture
A recent article from software developer Trello, suggests that from learning space to conference hall, the bottom line is that there is a difference between multitasking and “task switching.” The distractible mind…a few thoughts from Clerkenwell Design Week #CDW18. Worth…
Active Learning & Teaching Conference, Anglia Ruskin University 12.9.17 #altalc
Following the success of our workshop on The Pedagogy of Space, Dom Pates and I were invited to present at Anglia Ruskin’s Active Learning Conference It was very successful with an encouraging level of engagement…
The Psychology of Collaboration – Herman Miller Seminar
The Psychology of Collaboration, presented by Bertie van Wyk, based on a paper by Dr. Nigel Oseland. http://bit.ly/2uOrLj8 Bertie van Wyk [BVW] is a workplace specialist, a communicator on human work insights, across Europe and USA….
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