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Learning & Teaching Conference 2014 The Learning Process – how do we create the right environment? Bev Robinson Estate Support Service 18 June 2014. Programme . Innovative learning space & Newcastle University L & T refurbishments – Bev Robinson ESS
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Learning & Teaching Conference 2014The Learning Process – how do we create the right environment? Bev RobinsonEstate Support Service18 June 2014
Programme • Innovative learning space & Newcastle University L & T refurbishments – Bev Robinson ESS • Technology enhanced learning – Dave Alsop ISS AVS • Sunderland University– Iain Garfield SU Estate Service • Good places for HE learning; Diamond ranking exercise – Pam Woolner ECLES • Workshop questions • Key Principles for developing new learning spaces
Collaborative Lecture theatre Loughborough University
Collaborative Lecture Theatre Queens University Belfast
Ridley 1 4.72 Nereid Cluster After Before Increased from 24 to 30 PC work stations. Posters to go up on the walls.
Playrooms and sandpits Dave Alsop ISS Audio Visual and Digital Media Services
Reliable, easy to operate technology • A range of supplementary learning and teaching tools • Some innovative learning and teaching spaces
Vice Chancellor The LaTTE project • Learning and Teaching Test Environment £ £ £
The LaTTE project • Learning and Teaching Test Environment Original layout The LaTTE room • KEY REQUIREMENTS • PC screens and magnetic boards at each workstation • Power sockets for student electronic devices • Suitable lighting • Removing the barrier between staff and students
The LaTTE project • Learning and Teaching Test Environment • STUDENT FEEDBACK • 85% appreciated that the layout of the room facilitated group work • 70% felt the room has impacted positively on their learning • 70% liked the ability to have the main screen projected onto a screen next to each table. • STAFF FEEDBACK • “The room encourages debate and communication; peer to peer as well as peer to student” • “It allows the swapping of pedagogical approaches without having to swap rooms” • “Staff can assist students individually or in groups in a more accessible way”
Senior Mng The Newcastle approach £ £ £
We need you! • Would you be willing to: • Work with us during the project? • Experiment with different ways of teaching in a less-familiar environment? • Suggest technologies would you like to see evaluated or designed into a space like this? • Help us think of a suitably catchy acronym for the project name? david.alsop@ncl.ac.uk