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Introduction to Method l
Key Teaching/Learning Activities and Examples of Spaces
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Evaluating Learning Spaces l
Consulting Evaluating, Planning & Supporting Learning Spaces
Classrooms, course management systems, libraries,
... these are all examples of learning spaces,
i.e., facilities that enable people to learn, to teach, and to
interact.
Because electronic technologies are changing quickly -- in their
abilities to support teaching and learning activities, in their
shapes, and in their weaknesses - this web site focuses on
teaching/learning spaces as they affect, or are affected by, the
use of such technologies.
This collection of TLT/Flashlight
materials, tools and services can be used to
1. Evaluate the ways in which current
facilities are supporting or hindering crucial
teaching/learning activities. (Why focus on
teaching/learning activities?
Click here to see a
brief video.) poll or interview your faculty and
students about ways in which a facility at your institution
makes some of the teaching/learning activities easier or
harder. Spark the conversation by showing
them exemplary spaces, some of which are described in these
pages..
2. Use those insights to help the academic
program take better advantage of current learning spaces, and
thus get more value from these expensive facilities.
3. Work with planning teams to help them imagine
how academic programs might improve if new kind of learning
spaces were available,
4. Work
with architects and vendors to
design the learning spaces that would make such activities
feasible.
Evaluate those new learning spaces to fine-tune the ways
those facilities are being supported and used.
With the increasing importance of "blended"
and "hybrid" academic programs, it's more important than ever to
plan and support physical and virtual (online) learning spaces so
that they complement and reinforce one another, cost-effectively
Introduction to
Method,
explaining the concept of educational facilities and how
teaching/learning activities can be used to evaluate and
improve both physical and online facilities.
* "Future
of the Learning Space: Breaking Out of the Box," by Phil
Long and Steve Ehrmann, EDUCAUSE Review, July/August 2005.
List of Key
Teaching/Learning Activities, illustrated with selected
physical and online learning facilities that make each such
teaching/learning activity unusually easy or unusually
difficult. (Please
suggest new activities and new examples!)
Methods for evaluating learning spaces in order to provide data for improving
training, planning renovations, or designing new facilities
TLT Group
consulting can help your planners develop goals and
programs for new buildings, classroom renovations, distributed
or hybrid learning environments, and distance learning
architectures. We can help you evaluate course management
systems and virtual worlds, helping your staff and
instructors learn how to get use them in more powerful
ways for student learning. Our specialty is helping users imagine the
kinds of teaching and learning that might become easier if
learning spaces could be improved. Another hallmark
of our consulting is our emphasis on
collaborative change: we help you get the kind of
involvement from all around the institution that's necessary
for facilities to meet needs, to be properly supported, and to
be fully utilized. For more on the kind of consulting we could
do with your planners, click
here.
For
information, send e-mail to
info@tltgroup.org or call 301-270-8312.
Introduction to Method l
Key Teaching/Learning
Activities and Examples of Spaces l
Evaluating Learning Spaces l
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