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Dabae Lee; Jozenia T. Colorado-Resa; Yeol Huh – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2025
This developmental study explores the process and outcomes of creating an active learning classroom within a higher education setting. To support student success, institutions have increasingly redesigned their learning spaces to promote active learning. Early initiatives often aimed to facilitate collaborative learning and reduce reliance on…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Active Learning, Classroom Environment, Classroom Design
Vânia Carlos; Gabriela Reses; Sandra C. Soares – Interactive Learning Environments, 2024
As spaces, physical or virtual, are change agents and can have an impact on learning, the power of built pedagogy is being acknowledged in Higher Education. Emphasis is being placed on the design of Active Learning Spaces (ALS) and its impact on pedagogy, by fostering active learning. However, the field is fragmented, due to a profusion of terms…
Descriptors: Literature Reviews, Content Analysis, Classroom Design, Educational Environment
Khamitova, Aiman – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2023
Current educational research and practice urge the reconceptualization of learning spaces' design, development, and usage. However, only some research studies address the formation of innovative learning spaces in higher education. This systematic mapping review (Grant & Booth. "Health Information & Libraries Journal," 26,…
Descriptors: Educational Innovation, Higher Education, Educational Environment, Classroom Design
Merve Basdogan; Tracey Birdwell – Learning Environments Research, 2024
A growing diversity of classroom designs, broadly labeled as active learning classrooms, is a rising development across higher education institutions. Along with the construction of these new spaces, stakeholders have developed new vocabularies and concepts for articulating and identifying the impact of new classroom designs for teaching and…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Reflective Teaching, Classroom Design, Colleges
Knudson, Duane; Odum, Mary; Meaney, Karen – Journal of Learning Spaces, 2022
Faculty and student perception of engagement in two (mobile desks or mobile tables and chairs) low-tech active learning classroom (ALC) designs were compared. Student (n = 413) perceptions of engagement were measured with the Engaged Learning Index (ELI) and the Social Context and Learning Environments (SCALE) instruments at the beginning and end…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, College Students, Teacher Attitudes, College Faculty
Marchiori, Katelyn S.; McLean, Sarah – Journal of Learning Spaces, 2022
The main objective of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of an active learning space (ALS) in supporting student development of effective communication as a transferable skill. A fourth-year medical science course was taught in two different settings, an ALS and a fixed-row classroom, by the same instructor. Participants preferred the ALS for…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Communication Skills, Science Education, Instructional Effectiveness
Hedieh Najafi; N. Carol Rolheiser; Kelly Gordon – Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2024
This article describes an evaluation of a campus wide Active Learning initiative to examine instructors' experiences teaching in Active Learning Classrooms (ALCs) at a Canadian University. ALCs at this university differ in size, layout, and audio-visual equipment. The participants were 21 instructors from different disciplines who had taught…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Teaching Methods, Foreign Countries, Classroom Design
Kennedy, Heather R.; Stafford, Gloria E. – Journal of Learning Spaces, 2023
An "active learning" classroom design recognizes the importance of students becoming engaged in their own learning. Using a mixed-methods approach, this study compared student-reported data (n = 219) and used the "community of inquiry" framework to evaluate the impact of environmental features on students' experience. Students…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Classroom Environment, Student Experience, College Students
Michael P. A. Murphy; Andrea Phillipson; Andrew Leger – College Teaching, 2025
Recent years have witnessed the spread of purpose-built active learning classrooms throughout the higher education sector. While these innovative learning spaces are well-suited for a variety of active learning strategies, their lack of a single focal point means they are inconvenient spaces for lecturing. While educational developers often…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Faculty, College Students, College Instruction
Young, Barbara; Hynes, Wendy; Hynes, Morgan – Journal of Learning Spaces, 2021
While the interior design of classroom spaces has evolved to support active learning methods, few studies have isolated environment changes from curriculum changes to understand the impact of space on behavior (Brooks, Walker, & Baepler, 2014). Adapting an observation instrument from the Brooks (2012) study, "Space and Consequences",…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Active Learning, Classroom Design, Classroom Environment
Powers, Samantha L.; Barcelona, Robert J.; Trauntvein, Nate E.; McLaughlin, Sean – Schole: A Journal of Leisure Studies and Recreation Education, 2022
Success in the field of recreation management requires a variety of 21st-century skills including the abilities to solve complex problems, think creatively, and collaborate with peers. Research suggests that instructor contribution through active learning pedagogy, incorporation of technology, and maximization of classroom design can foster…
Descriptors: Classroom Design, Learner Engagement, Recreational Activities, Leisure Education
Copridge, Keeley Webb; Uttamchandani, Suraj; Birdwell, Tracey – Innovative Higher Education, 2021
Increasingly, Active Learning Classrooms (ALCs) are being designed and built by higher education institutions to support instructors in adopting and implementing active learning pedagogies. In this study, we explore how instructors perceive changes in their teaching after teaching in ALCs. Our study focuses on the perceptions of faculty members…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Faculty Development, Teacher Attitudes, Classroom Design
Erin Keith; Carolyn Clarke; Allison Tucker – Canadian Journal of Action Research, 2024
Learning spaces in higher education are fraught with colonial barriers such as teacher-centered, front facing, stark, feelingless, and unwelcoming classrooms that diminish students' feelings of well-being. For pre-service teachers, these are also the types of classrooms that they often inherit as they foray into the profession. Three Bachelor of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, Decolonization
Holec, Victoria; Marynowski, Richelle – Teaching & Learning Inquiry, 2020
Active learning has experienced a recent resurgence with the advent of specialized active learning classrooms. While the fundamental theory behind active learning is anything but new, a relatively recent finding is that active learning pedagogies thrive in suitable active learning classrooms. To date, studies of active learning have focused on…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Active Learning, Self Evaluation (Individuals), Classroom Environment
Beaudry, Sharon – Journal of Learning Spaces, 2022
Active learning has been a growing trend in education for decades based on its impact on student learning and success. As such, schools, colleges, and universities have invested resources into expanding this teaching approach, including active learning classrooms. But why have some schools been successful at rapidly growing their active learning…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Classroom Environment, Classroom Design, Higher Education