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NEW APPROACHES TO DESIGNING LEARNING SPACE
Many excellent resources have been developed to support and describe the emerging new practices for designing learning spaces that can accommodate the needs of today’s/tomorrow’s learners. EDUCAUSE is doing an excellent job of representing these new perspectives. The following short list captures these new perspectives. ____________________________________________________________

• Mark S. Valenti, “Creating the Classroom of the Future:
The Black Box Theater and AV/IT Converegence”
EDUCAUSE Review, September/October 2002.
This article distills a great deal of practical experience in dealing with converged technology classroom environments into useful insights and guidelines for design.
www.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/erm0254.pdf


• William L. Mitchell, “Rethinking Campus and Classroom Design”
NLII 2004.
This PowerPoint presentation distills Mitchell’s concepts as they apply to campus design. It provides some excellent examples gleaned from his experience at MIT.
http://www.educause.edu/librarydetailpage/666&id=nli0438A


• Diana Oblinger, “Leading the Transition from
Classrooms to Learning Space”
NLII White Paper, October 2004.
This paper is an excellent distillation of vision, principles, and responsibilities of design teams in designing learning space for today’s colleges and universities. www.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/NLI0447.pdf


• Mark S. Valenti, “Learning Space Design:
Precepts and Assumptions”
EDUCAUSE Review, July/August 2005.
This paper suggests that the stakeholders of a planning project take the first step of stipulating a set of precepts and assumptions. The paper offers sample precepts/assumptions to guide learning space design. www.educause.edu/apps/er/erm05/erm0545.asp


• Chris Johnson and Cyprien Lomas, “Design of the Learning Space”
EDUCAUSE Review, July/August 2005, pp. 16-29.
Outlines a new way to view design using the Conceive, Design, Implement, and Operate (CDIO) process which conceives of the new learning environment as a “product” to be created rather than a space to be redesigned. http://www.educause.edu/apps/er/erm05/erm0540.asp


• Carole C. Wedge and Thomas D. Kearns, “Creation of the Learning Space: Catalysts for Envisioning and Navigating the Design Process”
EDUCAUSE Review, July/August 2005, pp. 32-38.
Describes a seven-step design process that focuses on the importance of the campus community in shaping the planning process for the learning environment served by the facilities.
http://www.educause.edu/apps/er/erm05/erm0541.asp


• Phillip D. Long and Stephen C. Erhmann. “Future of the Learning Space: Breaking Out of the Box”
EDUCAUSE Review, July/August 2005, pp. 42-59.
This article is a must read. It describes the sorts of pioneering learning spaces that are emerging on campuses, including the characteristics of future classrooms and out-of-class learning settings.
www.educause.edu/apps/er/erm05/erm0542.asp


• Mark S. Valenti, et al. “Classroom Design: Lessons from the Technology Trenches”
SCUP Webcast.
This is a PowerPoint presentation from Mark Valenti describing the impact of technology convergence (IT and AV) on classroom design, with examples from leading-edge institutions.
http://cpdc.uchc.edu/links/pdfs/webcast_1.pdf


• Project Kaleidoscope
One of the most vibrant sectors of campus design is for science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) buildings. Project Kaleidoscope was launched to create visions for robust 21st century STEM learning environments. The project website contains many useful principles, white papers, and examples.
www.pkal.org


Please let us know of additional relevent resources,
or if any of the above links have changed.


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