Category: Learning Spaces

Flexible learning spaces, DALI, classroom innovations, elsewhere in the sector…

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 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

Snakes and ladders, discovering my digital skills and other highlights from EUNIS19

Would you like to play a game? One of my favourite sessions at EUNIS19 was the snakes and ladders game presented by Gill Ferrell and Eleanor Magennis based on the ucisa Learning Spaces toolkit. The presentation showcased some of the spaces in the toolkit and mentioned two items of interest: Research on social learning spaces…Continue Reading Snakes and ladders, discovering my digital skills and other highlights from EUNIS19

Bricks will be replaced by clicks – Campus for the future – EUNIS19

Slide showing diagram of the University of Glasgow's smart campus vision.

“Bricks will be replaced by clicks” they said in the early 2000s, suggesting a move away from physical campuses in favour of more virtual spaces, with campus managers becoming IT managers. Fast forward 19 years and Professor Alexandra den Heijer from TU Delft opens the EUNIS19 congress (view slides) confirming that campuses are still here…Continue Reading Bricks will be replaced by clicks – Campus for the future – EUNIS19

Showcasing interactive learning spaces at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Photos of the R2 collaborative lecture theatre at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology

“Rank these learning spaces from most to least favourite.” Those were our instructions for the opening activity at the Active Learning in Interactive Spaces pre-congress workshop at EUNIS19 hosted by the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) inTrondheim. Each group had been given photos of five different spaces and we were asked to discuss…Continue Reading Showcasing interactive learning spaces at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology

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 was to design a collaborative space, where students are led through the curriculum and practical sessions, that mirrors a typical…Continue Reading New Active Learning Space for Journalism

Teaching and Learning, Wirelessly

Crowd displayed on an iPhone 7

Bringing it all together and moving forward This is the final in a series of six posts about LEaD’s investigations into introducing wireless collaboration technologies to City learning spaces. It covers lessons learned so far from investigating this new technology, thoughts on what mobile learning can bring to HE, and what the next steps are…Continue Reading Teaching and Learning, Wirelessly

Sweet Phone Chicago, Part Two

'Towards Wireless Collaboration' poster (Pates, 2018)

Further reflections on mLearn 2018 This is the fifth in a series of six posts about LEaD’s investigations into introducing wireless collaboration technologies to City learning spaces. It provides further reporting on a visit to mLearn 2018, as well as reflections on being mobile in America, and some additional flavours of Chicago. Kicking off proceedings…Continue Reading Sweet Phone Chicago, Part Two

Sweet Phone Chicago, Part One

Conference freebie - a 3D-printed robot phone holder, plus iPhone 6s

Reflections on the 17th World Conference on Mobile and Contextual Learning This is the fourth in a series of six posts about LEaD’s investigations into introducing wireless collaboration technologies to City learning spaces. It covers arriving at mLearn 2018, an international conference on mobile learning set in Chicago, and reports on the main points from…Continue Reading Sweet Phone Chicago, Part One

Tackling the Mobile Learning Paradox

Students at University Missouri School of Journalism, with laptops open in a lecture hall.

On mobile learning and higher education This is the third in a series of six posts about LEaD’s investigations into introducing wireless collaboration technologies to City learning spaces. It covers a paradox identified in trying to facilitate greater use of mobile devices in learning spaces, the emergence of an overarching research question, and some wider…Continue Reading Tackling the Mobile Learning Paradox

Towards Wireless Collaboration

First generation iPhone (2007)

The journey so far towards wireless collaboration at City This is the second in a series of six posts about LEaD’s investigations into introducing wireless collaboration technologies to City learning spaces. It covers the rise of smartphones and mobile devices, increasing demand at City for integration of mobile devices within learning spaces, and how LEaD…Continue Reading Towards Wireless Collaboration