Revisiting Learning Space Design: An ELI Focus Session

We've attended a number of EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative focus sessions. Each was well-run and a truly stimulating experience. ELI has been doing really leading edge work into learning space design issues and we highly recommend its Fall 2008 session titled Revisiting Learning Space Design. These are some of the questions being addressed:

The changes in our students and an evolving understanding about how people learn generate new discussions about the roles of technology and pedagogy in the design of learning spaces. How can we design spaces that facilitate the active construction of knowledge? How can a physical space support flexibility, interactivity, and collaboration? Is the curriculum a factor? That is, are the implications of learning space design for a history class the same as those for a physics course? Are there emerging practices (or guiding principles) to designing technology-rich learning environments? We know—and students tell us—that learning spaces can significantly influence teaching and learning, but how do we maximize that impact? What role will technology play? And what role should pedagogy play?

SCUP will be there.