Learning Spaces

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Learning Spaces Learning spaces are NOT just
classrooms They are ANY spaces where learning
can take place faculty offices, lounges,
quadrangles, corridors, hallways, libraries,
rooms, canteens and classrooms
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By 2010

• Higher student expectations
• Amenities in a 24/7 lifestyle
• Technology will be mobile, portable and personal
• Quality of experience
• Multi-use learning spaces for
• flexibility
• Lectures, tutorials, personal coaching, theatre
• group and private study
• - Dedicated spaces for specific purposes
• Integrated IT and AV convergence in
• learning spaces - classrooms will be
• multimedia communications environment
• Audiovisual technologies will be
• more innovatively creatively used
• Online guest lectures will be common

• Shift from systems like IVLE to
• e_portfolios - allow faculty to gauge
• students learning and profile better
• Personal Learning Environments

BTC
Other IHLs
Kent Ridge
UT _at_ Warren
Guest Lecture
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24 by 7 lifestyle
IVLE Usage Highest from 8 p.m. to 3 a.m.
same for Internet services
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Personal Learning Environment
A new learning paradigm ?
Accesses Internet Resources
Active in Online Communities
Online Training
NUS Resources Lectures Tutorials NUS
Libraries Stud. Mgmt. System IVLE Webcast
Lectures Curriculum Website
Real Time Collaboration with Peers
Free Courses Software Subscription Services
Embarks on Virtual Fieldtrips
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Mobile, Portable, Personal with Power
The Straits Times Saturday April 28th 2007
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New Business Building should

• Be Future Proofed
• to enable space to be shared, re-allocated and
  reconfigured to
• suit different teaching scenarios and learning
  styles
• Cater to the NET generation students
• Have integrated IT and AV convergence in all
  teaching and
• learning spaces
• Allow access and opportunities for
  faculty-faculty faculty-
• students student-students to engage and
  collaborate
• Be a showcase for visitors and educators

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New Business Building should
Space Use Scenarios

• Building management system
• consistent web-interface to control all
  building resources, including
• teaching and learning spaces
• Location-based tracking
• Surveillance video integration
• IPTel information services kiosk
• Extended wireless coverage
• - mesh, outdoors, halls
• Payment card and RFID integration
• High Definition (HD) TV and cable transmission
  ready
• Public Announcements

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Seminar Style Small Group Teaching

• Light-weight, wheeled chairs, tables for easy
  reconfiguration of room
• Portable Podiums
• Integrated IT and AV convergence
• - wired wireless
• Electronic whiteboards, visualizers
• Faculty and students can present from where they
  are sitting students take control of faculty
  slides and comment
• Writeable walls
• Allow students to use facilities for their own
  discussion

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Seminar Style Small Group Teaching
Support video conferences and webcast
lectures Audio and lights no need to darken
rooms no microphones Students electronically
identified
Olin College
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Central Teaching and Learning Facilities

• Tiered and U-shaped
• Integrated IT and AV convergence - wired
  wireless supports video recordings
• Dual projection systems - faculty can speak
  freely no need to darken rooms
• Large plasmas mounted in-front for faculty to
  support teaching no turning back
• Teaching tools writing tablets, visualizers
  larger non-reflective whiteboards

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Central Teaching and Learning Facilities

• Classroom Performance Systems instant feedback
• Web-based consistent interface to control and
  monitor all LT resources

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Corridors and Passageways

• Wireless hotspots and electrical sockets
• Comfortable and movable sofas, tables and chairs
  not bolted to floor
• Whiteboards and presentation facilities along
  walls
• Utilise open and closed walkways good designs
• Air-conditioned
• Cafés
• Student Designs

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Warren Digital Commons at UT _at_ Warren
Place for students to interact, brainstorm, get
technology support and research assistance,
attend workshops or classes, develop projects,
study and work in groups together or individually
on course assignments. It is also a place to
complement academic learning in the RCs such as
supporting non-academic co-curricular programmes
and selected recreational activities.
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Warren Digital Commons at UT _at_ Warren
Partnership between RCs, NUSSU, NUS Libraries,
Computer Centre, OSA, CIT and OED Physically
connected and accessible to all RCs Different
floors to support objectives of Commons
recreation, access to resources, computers,
discussion rooms, private study corners,
multimedia development, studios, presentation
rooms, faculty offices Supports RC Themes Food
and Drinks Allowed greater tolerance of noise and
activity
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Warren Digital Commons at UT _at_ Warren

• Level 1
• PC/Mac Clusters, Lecture Theatres
• Canteens, Cafes, Retail Services
• Scanners, Poster Colour Printing
• Peer Tutoring rooms
• Level 2
• - Digital Library Resources
• - Multimedia Workspaces Software
• Visualisation Centre
• Printing Services, Dark Rooms
• - Group Study/Seminars Rooms
• Level 3
• Media and Broadcast Hub for
• student-led TV and Radio station
• Recording Viewing Studios
• - Presentation Studios
• Pre and Post Production Editing

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References Educause Learning Spaces
e-Book http//www.educause.edu/content.asp?PAGE_ID
10569bhcp1 Educause Trends in Student Life
and Student Technologies ArtStreet living and
learning complex http//artstreet.udayton.edu Sc
aleUp http//www.ncsu.edu/PER/SCALEUP/Classrooms.h
tml Denison University Learning Spaces
Project http//www.denison.edu/learnignspaces/ L
earning Spaces Malcolm Brown, Dartmouth College
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