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TOWARDS CREATIVE LEARNING SPACES

..... EXPLORING CONCEPTUAL, PERSONAL, SOCIAL, PHYSICAL AND VIRTUAL SPACES FOR LEARNING IN HIGHER EDUCATION

Thursday, June 11, 2009

A nice little gizmo

Sometimes it is really nice to come across interactive web resources that really 'get' the distinctiveness of art and design. So I recommend that you try out Sketchbook developed by Julia Gaimster at the University of the Arts.

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TOWARDS CREATIVE LEARNING SPACES aims to bring together into one place, the global ideas, issues, examples and resources concerned with making learning spaces in universities and colleges more creative and effective.

TOWARDS CREATIVE LEARNING SPACES was developed as part of the Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning through Design (CETLD), one of over 60 HEFCE-funded projects from 2005 - 2010. The CETLD partnership was between the University of Brighton, the Royal College of Art, the Royal Institute of British Architects and the Victoria & Albert Museum.

This blog is now an archive for that group. It is occasionally updated with more recent resources, events and news. It is hosted by Jos Boys, previously Senior Research Fellow in Learning Spaces at the University of Brighton, and now an independent scholar and consultant; working on learning spaces for the University of Ulster, University of New South Wales, University of Calgary and and RMIT Vietnam. She can be contacted at boysj@regents.ac.uk where she teaches part-time.

BLOG NEWS

*In July 2013, Jos won the SCUP Perry Chapman Learning Spaces Research Prize. This is to look how what kinds of research methods can help campus planners better understand students' perceptions and experiences of the totality of their learning environment. She is blogging about this work in progress on SCUP's learning environments roundtable at http://mojo.scup.org/group/learning-space-design

* As part of that project, Jos and Diane Hazlett, Director of the University of Ulster's Centre for Higher Education Practice (CHERP) went to the University of Michigan, as part of a 'book-writing' conference.

* Since January 2013 Jos has been working as a consultant for he University of Ulster. This is on a learning spaces project supporting staff and students in their learning activities, as part of the longer-term move to Greater Belfast Development (GBD), the University's major new building, just beginning construction. This project has its own website at:

http://ulsterlearningspaces.blogspot.co.uk/

* Jos was invited as a participant to the Future Learning Environments - How Space impacts on Learning conference at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm in July 2012, where it rained (hard) the whole time.

* The Re-shaping Learning? A Critical Reader book collection, edited by Anne Boddington and Jos Boys, has been published by Sense and can be purchased as either an e-book or on old-fashioned paper.

* In August 2011, Anne and Jos hosted a meeting with two researchers from the Danish Ministry of Science, who are examining good European examples of learning spaces, as part of deign guidance they are writing for the Danish higher education sector.

* Jos will be giving 2 guest lectures on learning spaces in May 2011, one at the Wolfsonian Museum in Miami Beach, USA, and the other at the SCHOMS annual conference in Newcastle.

* Jos's book - Towards Creative Learning Spaces: re-thinking the architecture of post-compulsory education - was published by Routledge in November 2010.

* The CETLD Learning Spaces group organised a conference in July 2010. Entitled Re-Shaping Learning? The Future of Learning Spaces in Post-Compulsory Education was a 2-day event, held at the University of Brighton, 21st-23rd July 2010. A book collection of contributors research, called Re-Shaping Learning: a critical reader will be published by Sense in Spring 2011.

* Jos was one of the speakers at a one day conference entitled Learning Landscapes and the Idea of the University, organised by the University of Lincoln Learning Landscapes group on 13th April 2010.

* CETLD Learning Spaces research is developing as a team. CETLD, together with the CETL in Creativity, have funded a research project - exploring methodologies for evaluating experiences of Learning Spaces - being undertaken by Clare Melhuish. And Hilary Smith has been working as a Research Fellow, with a particular interest in the relationships between technologies and learning spaces.

* CETLD hosted an event in December 2009 for the Learning Spaces SIG which included visits to both the CETLD and CETL-C learning spaces.

* Hilary recently attended a seminar organised by Learning Landscapes, the University of Lincoln based research group, which is exploring how academics and estates managers can work better together - an issue we are also very interested in.

EDUCATION NEWS

Times Higher Education
Guardian Higher Education Network

CONFERENCES AND EVENTS

Learning Spaces in HE (LiHE 13) University of Michigan Oct 16-20 2013
Learning and Teaching through Transformative Spaces: ECE 2013, Brighton UK. July 11- 14
The Place of Learning and Teaching: HERDSA Conference, AUT University, New Zealand 1-4 July 2013
Exploring Spaces for Learning: International HETL Conference, Orlando Florida, January 13-15 2013
Design for New Generation Learning Spaces 2012 Melbourne 28 - 29 March 2012
2nd Annual Learning Space Design Summit Melbourne 5 -6 December 2011
Future Learning Spaces, Helsinki Finland, 27-30th September 2011
reLIVE11 Conference (researching learning in virtual environments), Open University 21-22nd Sept 2011
New Dynamics of Language Learning: Spaces and Places - Intentions and Opportunities. University of Jyvaskyla, Finland, 6-9th June 2011
SOLSTICE eLearning and CLTR Conference, Edgehill University, 8 - 9th June 2011
SCHOMS conference Newcastle 11th -13th May 2011
American Educational Research Association (AERA) conference, New Orleans,8 - 12 April 2011
Re-Shaping Learning? The Future of Learning Spaces in Post-Compulsory Education: University of Brighton, 21 - 23rd July 2010

KEY REFERENCES

21st Century Schools:Learning Environments of the Future (CABE undated)
Creating New Generation Learning Environments on the University Campus (Woods Bagot 2008)
Designing Spaces for Effective Learning (JISC 2006)
Designing spaces for effective learning: JISC video case studies
Distinction By Design: RIBA Higher Education Forum 2007
Explore It! Guidance and toolkit for academic workplace design
Horizon Project reports (nmc/Educause 2008)
Karolinska Institutet Sweden: Future Learning Environments Concept Manual
Karolinska Institutet Sweden: Learning Environments Visual Archive
Learning Environments in Tertiary Education (TEFMA, 2006)
Learning Futures (Innovation Unit 2008)
Learning Landscapes in Higher Education: Final Report (2010)
Learning Spaces in Higher Education: Positive Outcomes by Design. Proceedings of the Next Generation Learning Spaces 2008 Colloquium (University of Queensland)
Learning Spaces, ed; Diana G. Oblinger (EDUCAUSE e-book 2006)
Research Environments for HE
Society for College and University Planning (SCUP) Learning Space Design resources
Space for Learning: handbook for education spaces in museums
Space Management Group (SMG) resources
Spaces for Learning: a review of learning spaces in further and higher education (Scottish Funding Council 2006)
SPOT+ Analysising students views of ICT in higher education
Study of effective evaluation models & practices for technology supported physical learning spaces (JISC 2008)
Study on How Innovative Technologies are Influencing the Design of Physical Learning Spaces in the Post-16 Sector
Teaching and Learning Spaces (Australian T+L Council 2007)
The Case for New Academic Workspaces
Thematic Analysis: Space (Cambridge University Learning Landscapes)
What if...? Re-imagining learning spaces (futurelab 2006)
What’s next? 21 ideas for 21st century learning (Innovation 2008)

KEY WEBSITES

Academic Workspace
ADM-HEA (Art:Media:Design Subject Centre)
Centre for Education and the Built Environment (CEBE)
Commission for the Built Environment (CABE)
d.school Stanford University
Design Share: designing for the future of learning
Engage - gallery education
Enhancement themes (Scottish Higher Education Enhancement Committee)
Environmental Association for Universities and Colleges
Explore Academic Workplace
Futurelab
Higher Education Academy UK
JISC e-learning innovation programme
JISC InfoNet: Learning Spaces
Karolinska Institutet Sweden research project: Future Learning Environments - How Space Impacts on Learning
Learning Landscapes blog, Cambridge University
Learning Landscapes in Higher Education
Learning Space Toolkit
Learning Spaces Collaboratory
Museum, Libraries and Archives Council (MLA)
OECD Centre for Effective Learning Environments (CELE)
Plymouth University Space Strategy Project
Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA)
Society for College and University Planning
SOMUL: the social and organisational mediation of university learning
Space Management Group
Standing conference for Heads of Media Services (SCHOMS)
Student as Producer
UK Learning Space SIG
University of Plymouth Space Strategy Project
WISE (World Innovation Summit for Education)

INTERESTING SPACES

CILASS, University of Sheffield
CLTC, University of Queensland
Easterhouse and East End, John Wheatley College
Fountains Learning Centre, York St John College
Information Commons, University of Sheffield
InQbate Creativity Zone, University of Sussex
Interactive Kitchen, Lewisham College
Mathematics Learning Support Centre, Loughborough University
OpenLearn (free Open University online learning site)
Saltire Centre, Glasgow Caledonian University
SPLINT, University of Nottingham
Stephenson College, Coalville
Techno-Cafe, Active Learning in Computing CETL, University of Durham
Telford College, Edinburgh
The Learning Centre, Glasgow Caledonian University
The Learning Grid, Warwick University
The Reinvention Centre (Oxford Brookes and Warwick Universities)
The Robinson Rooms, LSE
The Stevenage Centre, North Hertfordshire College
University of Derby: B226
White Space, University of Abertay

'DISTRIBUTED CREATIVITY'

Horsesmouth
Institute of infinitely small things
Proboscis
Re-public
School of Everything
SFZero

LINKED BLOGS

arts and culture blog
Design with intent
elearnspace
Inspired learning spaces
Learner Generated Contexts Wiki
mobile learner
Paul's e-learning resources
personal learning environments blog
Second Life - learning from social worlds
Space for Knowledge Generation
Spacesforlearning.ning.com
The chief of confusion;John Seeley Brown
Wenger: Communities of Practice

ONLINE BOOKS, PAPERS AND ARTICLES

Anne Taylor:Programming and Design of Schools within the context of community 2000
Clare Melhuish: CETLD/CETL-C Literature review, student experiences of learning spaces
Interview with William J. Mitchell on learning and creativity 2003
Jeremy B Williams & Joanne Jacobs: Exploring the use of blogs as learning spaces in the higher education sector 2004
Jos Boys: Between Unsafe spaces and the comfort zone, conference paper 2007
Lennie Scott-Webber (2004) In Sync: Environmental Behavior Research and the Design of Learning
Noam Austerlitz (ed) Unspoken Interactions anthology (order here)
Paul Temple: Learning spaces in higher education: an under-researched topic London Review of Education, 1474-8479, Volume 6, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 229 – 241
Physical and Virtual Learning Spaces in Higher Education: Concepts for the Modern Learning Environment Book in progress edited by Professor Mike Keppell, Charles Sturt University; Associate Professor Kay Souter & Matthew Riddle, La Trobe University

TOOLS AND RESOURCES

Camtasia Studio -screencasting tool
DEEDS Podscape: resources on sustanability
DimDim - web conferencing tool
Edith Ackermann: Designs for Learning
Flock – the social network browser
LearnHigher Visual Practices resources
MLA Inspired Learning for All Toolkit
Ning - create your own social network
OOKL: mobile learning everywhere
Sketchbook
Spotify
TEDtalks (technology, entertainment, design) video clips
Wordle 'word clouds'

KEY THEMES

BLOG ARCHIVE

GET IN TOUCH

If you are interested in the field of learning spaces in higher education, feel welcome to get in touch with Jos Boys at boysj@regents.ac.uk where she teaches part-time.