Half a Dozen Good Articles on Learning Spaces

The current issue of EDUCAUSE Review is titled "Learning Spaces" and it serves up some very nice knowledge from a number of writers and practitioners, including a number of SCUPers. Betcha can't not read at least one of these:

PAIR-Up - "To create sustainable learning spaces, we must Partner with others for Pedagogy-rich designs, Assess learning in the new spaces, Integrate ideas for Innovation, and Revisit design methodologies." By Linda Jorn, Aimee Whiteside, and Ann Hill Duin

Learning Spaces: Involving Faculty to Improve Pedagogy - "The interplay between focused analysis of the curriculum and pedagogical style, and the implications for the way classrooms are set up and equipped, can have major dividends for both students and faculty." By Joan K. Lippincott

Assessment: The Key to Creating Spaces That Promote Learning - "Without assessment of learning spaces, institutions may miss the important connections between context, institutional culture, students' specific needs, and pedagogical practices that yield optimal learning." By Sawyer Hunley and Molly Schaller

Signposts of the Revolution? What We Talk about When We Talk about Learning Spaces - "Innovative efforts to design new learning environments point to a path for the future; following this path requires using a common language to describe learning environments and their aspirations." By Phillip D. Long and Richard Holeton

Space Strategies for the New Learning Landscape - "Revisiting design methodologies and applying the Learning Landscape approach leads to campuses that are "networks" of places for learning, discovery, and discourse between students, faculty, staff, and the wider community." By Shirley Dugdale

Inversions - "On the basis of constructivist learning theory, networked information technology, and a new kind of student and faculty, the traditional educational layers are inverting—a process nowhere more evident than in learning spaces." By Malcolm Brown