Redesigning formal and informal learning spaces to create a consistent student experience

1. REREDESIGNING FORMAL AND
INFORMAL LEARNING SPACES
TO CREATE A CONSISTENT
STUDENT EXPERIENCEand Consistent Student Experience
Professor Mike Keppell
Pro Vice-Chancellor, Learning Transformations
New Generation
Learning Space Design

2. Preparing Students to
Solve the Problems of
the Future

3. Overview
• Ecosystem
• Blended learning
• Guiding pedagogies
• Designing spaces
• Informal learning spaces
• Formal learning spaces
• Professional development

4. Defining Learning
Spaces

5. Defining Learning Spaces
• Physical, blended or virtual
learning environments that
enhance learning
• Physical, blended or virtual
‘areas’ that motivate a learner
to learn

6. Defining Learning Spaces
• Spaces where both teachers
and learners optimise the
perceived and actual
affordances of the space
• Spaces that promote
authentic learning
interactions (Keppell &
Riddle, 2012, 2013).

7. Trends and Challenges

9. Swinburne Ecosystem

10. Ecosystem
Pathways and
Vocational
Education
Higher
Education
Work Integrated
Learning

11. Blended Learning

12. Formal
on-campus
teaching
spaces
Informal
on-campus
learning spaces
Online learning
and teaching
spacesBlended
Learning
On-Campus Learning and Teaching
at Swinburne

13. Guiding Pedagogies

14. Authentic Learning
• …require students to complete
complex real-world tasks over
a period of time in collaboration
with others as they would in a
real setting or workplace
(Herrington, 2006)

15. Authentic Assessment
• Empowering the learner by
engaging them in assessment
tasks that simulate or engage
the learner in real-life
situations.
• “Engaging and worthy
problems or questions of
importance, in which students
must use knowledge to fashion
performances effectively and
creatively” (Wiggins, 1993, p.
229).

16. Personalised Learning
• Learning pathways
• ePortfolios
• The knowledge, skills and
attitudes that enable learning
and act as a catalyst to
empower the learner to continue
to learn (Keppell, 2015)

17. Peer Learning
• Students teaching and
learning from each other.
• Sharing ideas, knowledge
and experiences
• Emphasises interdependent
as opposed to independent
learning (Boud, 2001).

18. Designing Spaces

19. Principles of Learning Space Design
• Comfort: a space which
creates a physical and mental
sense of ease and well-being
• Aesthetics: pleasure which
includes the recognition of
symmetry, harmony, simplicity
and fitness for purpose
• Flow: the state of mind felt by
the learner when totally
involved in the learning
experience

20. Principles of Learning Space Design
• Equity: consideration of the needs
of cultural and physical differences
• B l e n d i n g : a m i x t u r e o f
technological and face-to-face
pedagogical resources
• A f f o r d a n c e s : t h e “ a c t i o n
p o s s i b i l i t i e s ” t h e l e a r n i n g
environment provides the users
• Repurposing: the potential for
multiple usage of a space (Souter,
Riddle, Keppell, 2010)

21. Informal Learning
Spaces

22. Survey
• 251 responses
• Among the factors that
influenced a student’s
preference of one space over
another were:
- access to power points,
- natural light,
- being close to a kitchenette/
microwave,
- being able to easily secure a seat/
desk/computer,
- quietness, and
- comfortable furniture.

28. Formal Learning
Spaces

36. FACTORY OF THE FUTURE

42. Professional
Development