With reference to recent posts on the event last autumn at Orangebox on SmartLearning, it reminded me just how important this subject really is, and its relevance for City, with planning for the creation of more large lecture theatres to cater for ever growing numbers of students. Often identified as iGen, these are our students,…Continue Reading What Type of Learning Spaces Should We Design for our Students?
This September, City University London’s first swivel seating lecture theatre will be built by Properties and Facilities. This will be a small lecture theatre available in the refurbishment of the University building basement. The room will boast rows of fixed seating along with swivel seating to enable group work and collaboration between students ensuring that…Continue Reading Swivel Seating in Lecture Theatres
Increasingly we are aware that learning does not happen by passively receiving information. The traditional lecture where one lecturer talks and students sit quietly in rows listening and taking notes has limited use. At City University London we are bringing about changes in the smaller learning spaces we have to create a number of flexible…Continue Reading Creating flexible learning spaces and the flipped lecture