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Title Collaborative learning environments : the UCD experience
Author(s) Hickey, Peter
Publication 2007-03-05
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2. Collaborative Learning Environments
The UCD Library Experience
Presented by Peter Hickey
UCD Library Leabharlann UCD
Health Sciences Centre Ionad Eolaíocht Sláinte UCD

3. What we will cover
• Learning Resource Centres, their
design features and student focused
ethos.
• Student Centred approaches to
teaching and learning and to space
provision

4. Two Key Drivers
• Move from Earlsfort Terrace
• Changes within UCD

5. Learning Resource Centres,
Key principles of LRC design
• Accessible and Compact
• Ambience and Environment
• Variety and Choice
• High Quality
• Connectivity
• Adaptable
• Manageable

6. In essence
• Accessible
• Welcoming
• Relevant and usable

7. Accessible
• Convenient
• Visible
• Compact

12. Welcoming
• Ambience
• Environment
• Quality

16. Relevant and usable
• Variety and choice
• Connectivity
• Adaptable
• Manageable

17. Connectivity
• Power and data to desks
• Individual lighting
• Full wireless coverage
• Laptop lending service

18. Manageable
• All collections on middle floor
• Easy to navigate for students
• Clear lines of sight
• Access control

20. Student Centred Learning
• Shift of power in the Teacher-Student
relationship
• Active learning
• Choice in learning

21. What this means
• Increasing range of learning activities
• More collaborative group work
• More individualisation and choice
• More frequent occupancy of library spaces
• Quality and variety of spaces must be good
• Greater use of resources, print, electronic, staff
• New methods of assessment

22. Key decisions
• Collections

23. Individual study
• 3 different sizes of desk
• 3 styles of bench/table

24. Casual seating
• Armchairs, couches,
benches

25. Collaborative study and PBL rooms

26. Computer Labs

27. Information
Skills
Room
• Prior Experience
• Critical Friends

29. Thank You