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Lucila Carvalho; Peter Goodyear; Lina Markauskaite – Higher Education Research and Development, 2025
If university students can do many of their activities anywhere, how do students decide what is best done at different locations? This paper introduces the concept of 'epistemic placemaking' as a capability to understand how to best equip and arrange places for knowledge work. Epistemic placemaking involves making choices based on the…
Descriptors: Epistemology, Educational Environment, College Students, Decision Making
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Lixiang Yan; Linxuan Zhao; Dragan Gaševic; Xinyu Li; Roberto Martinez-Maldonado – Journal of Learning Analytics, 2023
Socio-spatial learning analytics (SSLA) is an emerging area within learning analytics research that seeks to uncover valuable educational insights from individuals' social and spatial data traces. These traces are captured automatically through sensing technologies in physical learning spaces, and the research is commonly based on the theoretical…
Descriptors: Learning Analytics, Educational Research, Social Behavior, Physical Environment
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Justin Edwards; Andy Nguyen; Joni Lämsä; Marta Sobocinski; Ridwan Whitehead; Belle Dang; Sanna Järvelä – Higher Education Research and Development, 2025
As advanced technologies such as Artificial Intelligence (AI) become increasingly integrated into Higher Education (HE) learning spaces, these environments adapt to changing technologies and goals of educators and learners. As such, designing learning spaces requires HE researchers to imagine future learning spaces. In this article, we present a…
Descriptors: Educational Facilities Design, Technological Advancement, Student Attitudes, Colleges
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Eyal, Liat; Gil, Einat – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2020
A Future Learning Space (FLS) is a dynamic and a technology-rich learning environment that enables teaching and learning using innovative pedagogical methods. However, introducing innovation and technology into any educational setting, whether in K-12 schools or higher education institutions, is known to be challenging. This paper introduces…
Descriptors: Educational Innovation, Technology Integration, Space Utilization, Teaching Methods
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Rönnlund, Maria; Bergström, Peter; Tieva, Åse – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2021
This participatory design-based research study addresses the relational character of the physical learning environment and pedagogical practice in the context of a design project carried out at a Swedish upper secondary school. Three teachers initiated the project with the intent to introduce student centred pedagogy and increase active learning.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary Education, Secondary School Students, Nontraditional Education
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Reinius, Hanna; Korhonen, Tiina; Hakkarainen, Kai – Learning Environments Research, 2021
This exploratory case study examined the kinds of activity that a 'deskless school" (i.e., flexible physical school spaces) engenders among pupils and teachers. We also considered the meaning and significance that pupils and teachers attach to various features of the school, as well as the associated action possibilities. The data were…
Descriptors: Educational Facilities Design, Classroom Design, School Space, Space Utilization
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Göçen, Ahmet; Eral, Sümeyye Hatice; Bücük, Mustafa Hakan – International Journal of Contemporary Educational Research, 2020
Despite the uncertainty in the rapidly changing world, many countries expect their educational institutions to be ready for the future. To meet these expectations, educational policymakers bring in new changes. One of these transformational changes is the "Future Classroom Lab (FCL)," coordinated by the European Schoolnet with 15…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, 21st Century Skills, Educational Environment, Educational Technology
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Keiding, Tina Bering – E-Learning and Digital Media, 2011
This article addresses spatiality as an educational category by asking how spatiality influences students' experiences of interactions in project-based teaching. It examines students' experiences with two different spatial conditions--namely, separate rooms, each accommodating a single group, or a much larger open space hosting multiple groups. It…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Educational Environment, Space Utilization, Student Projects
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Davies, Dan; Jindal-Snape, Divya; Collier, Chris; Digby, Rebecca; Hay, Penny; Howe, Alan – Thinking Skills and Creativity, 2013
This paper reports on a systematic review of 210 pieces of educational research, policy and professional literature relating to creative environments for learning in schools, commissioned by Learning and Teaching Scotland (LTS). Despite the volume of academic literature in this field, the team of six reviewers found comparatively few empirical…
Descriptors: Personal Autonomy, Teaching Methods, Foreign Countries, Educational Research
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Whiteside, Aimee L.; Brooks, D. Christopher; Walker, J. D. – EDUCAUSE Quarterly, 2010
An article in last year's "EDUCAUSE Quarterly" special issue on learning spaces reported on the results of the University of Minnesota's pilot evaluation of its high-tech, state-of-the art Active Learning Classrooms (ALCs). The next phase of research on learning environments at the University of Minnesota involved a unique partnership…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Active Learning, Learning Strategies, Cooperative Learning
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Hammons, Angie; Oswald, Lauren Brady – EDUCAUSE Quarterly, 2009
The ability to do problem solving is an important concept that educators need to teach their students because that's what they do in the corporate world. When they're sitting in collaborative groups, they have the opportunity to bounce ideas off of each other, complete tasks, and work together effectively. That's the same idea that educators need…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Educational Environment, Educational Facilities Improvement, Educational Facilities Planning
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Bennett, Scott – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2011
What specific learning behaviors are important to students and faculty members? Does the campus provide spaces that foster these behaviors? Where are those spaces? Asking these three questions at six colleges and universities reveals notable differences in the ways students and faculty members answer them. Student and faculty member answers also…
Descriptors: Institutional Mission, College Faculty, Teaching Methods, College Students
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Taylor, Anne – Educational Leadership, 1993
Reflecting new visions of learning, educators and architects are creating "three-dimensional textbooks" that use the learning environment as a teaching tool. In a planning process called architectural programing, the community and those who will occupy the building are consulted concerning developmental needs, aesthetic preferences, and…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Cooperative Learning, Cultural Differences, Educational Environment