Learning Settings

Biophilic design draws on elements in nature and our connections to them as bases for creating man-made spaces. Writing in the Shepley Bulfinch blog, Sonja Bochart highlights six biophilic design principles as represented in recent […]

Dedicated rooms for project teams are becoming a more common work arrangement in a variety of organizations. The aim is to locate everyone on the team in a space where the team members and their […]

Educators with at least some control over the physical learning environment in which they work are often inclined to try to shape that environment to create the best conditions for learning. In the case of […]

Future Classroom Lab is a project among a network of universities in Finland. The network supports the exploration of new technologies for classrooms and new approaches to the preparation of teachers to function in the […]

With the growing interest in active learning at the college and university level, institutions are engaging in efforts to update classrooms to accommodate new pedagogies. These initiatives face different challenges at different institutions, but there […]

The latest report on the proceedings of the Innovative Learning Environments and Teacher Change Project are now available. The ILETC project is a multi-year effort, based at the University of Melbourne, that involved researchers, educators, […]

How many times have you walked into a new or recently renovated teaching space to find that there are multiple screens hanging on the walls? The currently popular configuration is to place two large led […]

Most learning environments, including classrooms, lecture halls, and libraries, have uniform lighting. Such lighting is typically provided by fluorescent or more recently led fixtures that cover the full ceiling. But recent research along with a […]

Are separate innovation units necessary?