Slides for a SHUNET seminar

1. SHUNET website: https://blogs.shu.ac.uk/shunet
 forthcoming sessions
 call for session offers and conversation leaders
 website - contribute profile info

2. What do we want from our learning spaces?
Andrew Middleton, SFHEA
Head of Innovation & Professional Development
@andrewmid

3. Overview
Learning Spaces - a chance to
• Discuss some questions
• Consider a set of design principles for
formal learning spaces and their
implications
(cc) Chad Kainz (cc) Learning Space Toolkit (cc) Wesley Fryer

4. Introduction
Where do we start?!
• How much does space matter anyway?
• How much do we, or our colleagues, know about learning
spaces anyway?
• The reality is our spaces need to be general enough to
accommodate all of us different people - don't they?
• No point looking at learning spaces before we've sorted
Timetabling!
• Messing with space will just confuse people!

5. Activity
In pairs
• Each person select one principle to discuss in a pair
• Read through your document
• What are the implications of this principle for the redesign of
existing spaces or the design of our future spaces?
• Generate one or more ideas or examples for how the
principle may help to enhance or transform teaching and
learning
Please make notes on the handout and let me have them after

7. Principle
Inform teaching and learning
interventions through the hosting and
distribution of resources in multiple media
formats including media generated by the
learning community
(cc) Sookle

8. Principle
Present key concepts in
ways that engage the
learner and develop their
understanding, skills and
sense of becoming i.e.
presentation methods and
media
(cc) Tobias Toft

9. Principle
Foster cognitive, active and
affective (how we belong and
feel) learner engagement i.e.
the design and use of
activities, discussion, and
reflection in and on learning
(cc) Pink Sherbet Photography

10. Principle
Develop understanding, skills
and a sense of becoming
through tutor-student and peer
co-operation i.e. space for
working together flexibly in a
range of one-to-one, or one-
to-many, and many-to-many
configurations
(cc) Brian Moore

11. Principle
Promote and support time on
task in and beyond the
classroom i.e. space supports a
range of active, immersive,
concentrated and purposeful
approaches to learning
(cc) COD Newsroom

12. Principle
Share learning artefacts that
reflect and represent formative
learning i.e. distribution of
learner-generated artefacts
including posters, flip charts,
videos, spreadsheets,
documents, etc
(cc) Jonathan McIntosh

13. Principle
Connect learning in the
classroom and independent study
with practice and communities
across physical, virtual, formal
and informal spaces i.e. viewing
formal spaces as part of a holistic
view of learning spaces used in a
student-centred approach
(cc) frankieleon

14. Principle
Interact and provide clear and
timely feedback on learning i.e.
formative feedback amongst
tutors and peers using a range
of appropriate interpersonal
interventions and media
(cc) Wonderlane

15. Principle
Capture understanding and
outcomes of active learning so
that it can be reviewed and
developed i.e. student note
making using various media and
provided methods for capturing
the outcomes of teaching
(cc) Saskia

16. Principle
Empower and include all learners and
their tutors and ensure all media and
methods are accessible, realistic or offered
as equivalent alternatives
(cc) Shawn Skriver

17. A principle-based approach allows us to review and articulate our
requirements for formal teaching and learning space
Are design principles for formal spaces enough (for the moment)?
Dominant concepts (e.g. the 'teaching wall') need to be challenged
Formal and informal learning spaces need to considered
holistically
Integration of both provided and personal technology is needed
Integration of technologies into teaching requires us to think
carefully about promoting inclusivity and digital literacy
Signature pedagogies (subject specific methods and professional
cultures) need consideration - how general can we be?
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Summary and closing thoughts