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[Past Speaker Presentation] Redesigning Blended Learning Spaces to Strengthen Student Engagement

[Past Speaker Presentation] Redesigning Blended Learning Spaces to Strengthen Student Engagement

Presented by Professor Bob Fox

Academic Lead Curriculum, UNSW Sydney

The World's Greatest Learning Spaces

The World's Greatest Learning Spaces

This eBook is designed to exhibit five of the most innovative learning spaces around the world, so to provide inspiration to all education service providers looking to elevate their facilities beyond the basic concept of the traditional classroom. 

The Essential Characteristics of Next-Gen Teaching and Learning

The Essential Characteristics of Next-Gen Teaching and Learning

To help focus your education modernsation strategy, we examined the teaching and learning styles that students actually want, the opportunities that modern learning spaces should provide and the essential characteristics next-gen teachers need to posses today. 

7 Ways to Create Innovative Learning Spaces

7 Ways to Create Innovative Learning Spaces

Many schools are faced with difficult questions regarding that new learning spaces should look like, how to create the business case and how to measure the improvement in student outcomes. To answer these questions, we spoke with seven of Asia's leading educators and experts in next generation learning space design. 

Three Case Studies Of Asian Leading Learning Spaces

Three Case Studies Of Asian Leading Learning Spaces

In this article, we looked at how Nanyang Technology University (NTU), Tanglin Trust School (TTS), and Hong Kong Polytechnic University innovate their learning spaces - their method, achievements and the impact on the end-user: the teacher and their class. 

Virtual Reality: Forging A New Path In Education

Virtual Reality: Forging A New Path In Education

In this article, we looked at the benefits of VR for students, how to overcome barriers to adoption and two case studies from Stamford American International School and North Carolina State University.

New Learning Spaces are Modernizing the Traditional Campus Worldwide

New Learning Spaces are Modernizing the Traditional Campus Worldwide

With increasing competition to attract students both locally and internationally, education providers are investing in developing the best facilities. In this article, Hon Steve Maharey, Vice-Chancellor, Massey University and Barbara White, Senior Lecturer in Information Technology, Charles Darwin University spoke about how they’ve been creating new learning spaces that will transform the education experience.

Matching Instructors and Spaces of Learning: The impact of space on behavioral, affective and cognitive learning

Matching Instructors and Spaces of Learning: The impact of space on behavioral, affective and cognitive learning

This study was conducted by our past speaker of the UK NGLS series. John McArthur, Director of Online Faculty Services and Associate Professor of Communication at Queens University of Charlotte, examines the extent to which instructional proxemics - the physical space of the learning environment - impacts student behavioural, affective, and cognitive learning.

Learning From Learning Spaces: How a Student-Centered Focus Benefits Both Academics and Design Professionals

Learning From Learning Spaces: How a Student-Centered Focus Benefits Both Academics and Design Professionals

We often think of collaborative learning in terms of classroom interactions, but it plays an important role in creating and adapting learning spaces, as well. In this session, we will explore how collaboration between students, academics and design professionals has led to insights into how students use classrooms and informal campus spaces.

Presentation by:

  • Doug Ward, Associate Director, Center for Teaching Excellence, UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
  • Brittany Reynolds, Research Assistant, TREANORHL ARCHITECTS
Navigating Constraints and Building Support for an Interactive Lecture Hall

Navigating Constraints and Building Support for an Interactive Lecture Hall

Higher education institutions have begun to re-imagine traditional lecture halls in ways that can better support active learning methods, but large classroom renovations are complex and require buy-in from a variety of campus stakeholders. In this session you will learn how the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill worked within numerous constraints to transform an aging lecture hall into an active learning environment.

Presentation by: Bob Henshaw, Educational Technology Consultant, IT Liaison to the Center for Faculty Excellence, UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA, CHAPEL HILL

[Past Speaker Presentation] Redesigning Existing Buildings to Promote a Culture of Self-led Learning

[Past Speaker Presentation] Redesigning Existing Buildings to Promote a Culture of Self-led Learning

Presented by Mat Davies
Oxford-Saïd Estate Director, University of Oxford
[Past Speaker Presentation] The New Dawn of Education: Exploring the Conceptual and Experiential Possibilities of Immersive Virtual Reality

[Past Speaker Presentation] The New Dawn of Education: Exploring the Conceptual and Experiential Possibilities of Immersive Virtual Reality

Presented by Glen O'Grady
Director Centre for Higher Education, Learning and Teaching
The Australian National University
Embracing Purposeful Design and Technology

Embracing Purposeful Design and Technology

Presented by: John Stewart, Creator, Living School