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Kivelä, Mikael – Journal of Learning Spaces, 2023
Non-traditional learning spaces have been a trending topic and investment opportunity during the last decade. Ostensibly their novel material settings promote active and flexible learning. This article traces the furniture layouts utilized in curricular teaching during three semesters across the first five years of use of an 80-seat…
Descriptors: Furniture, Space Utilization, Universities, Foreign Countries
Antonio Giner-Gomis; Marcos Jesús Iglesias-Martínez; Inés Lozano-Cabezas – Qualitative Research in Education, 2024
Environments or learning spaces in school classrooms contribute to the improvement of educational processes. Specifically, in the Early Childhood Education, teachers can design learning spaces, which fosters an environment of safety and autonomy for the students of the Early Childhood Education. This study explores the teachers' narratives…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Early Childhood Education, Child Safety, Teacher Attitudes
Benade, Leon – European Educational Research Journal, 2022
The role played by innovative educational environments to support learning for the 21st century has attracted the interest of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development at the global governance level and at the national policy level internationally. This article draws on global, European and Australasian research and data from a…
Descriptors: Educational Innovation, Educational Environment, Educational Facilities Design, Parents
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
Goodyear, Peter; Ellis, Robert A.; Marmot, Alexi – Understanding Teaching-Learning Practice, 2018
The chapters in this book both contribute to, and raise fundamental questions about, the knowledge that is valuable in the creation of good places to learn. Whether one is designing, managing or inhabiting a learning place, there are kinds of knowledge that can beneficially affect the relations between one's activities and surroundings. What does…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Educational Research, Educational Facilities Design, School Space
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
Leon Annett; Neil Hennessy; Alex McInch – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2024
One of the hallmarks of an ever-changing educational landscape is that students are paying considerably higher fees to study higher education courses, including those offered by college-based HE providers. As such, the student experience becomes of paramount importance to ensure student needs are met. To this end, this project sought to discover…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Higher Education, Educational Facilities Planning, Multicampus Colleges
Oliveras-Ortiz, Yanira; Bouillion, Dalane E.; Asbury, Lizzy – Journal of Education, 2021
Through a conceptual framework focused on student engagement, this article explores students' perceptions about the impact the design of learning environments has on student engagement. The current mixed-methods study was conducted at two Texas replacement elementary schools where the entire learning community, all teachers, administrators, staff,…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Elementary School Students, Grade 4, Grade 5
Westberg, Johannes – Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development, 2021
The physical environment in early childhood education and care is crucial. This paper examines the Swedish government's vision of preschool design in the welfare state of the 1970s and the conceptions of children and society upon which it was based. Presenting an investigation of reports, booklets, and study materials published by various branches…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Environment, Preschool Education, Educational Facilities Design
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
Lai, Chun; Huang, Yvonne Xianhan; Lam, Tungfei – Cambridge Journal of Education, 2020
Understanding the relationship between innovative learning spaces and teachers' pedagogical and social practices is essential given the increasing investment in innovative learning spaces worldwide. This study examined the socio-spatial practices of a group of teachers at a secondary school in an innovative learning space. Interview responses from…
Descriptors: Educational Innovation, Educational Environment, Secondary School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes
Montiel, Isabel; Mayoral, Asunción M.; Navarro Pedreño, José; Maiques, Silvia; Marco Dos Santos, Gema – Education Sciences, 2020
The present paper deals with a wide range of issues related to the environmental quality in learning spaces, such as thermal and visual comfort, as well as energy efficiency. All of these issues fall under the umbrella of the UN Agenda 2030 and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Upon reviewing publications of past studies, interviews were…
Descriptors: Sustainable Development, Physical Environment, Lighting, Educational Environment
Hegde, Asha L.; Boucher, Patricia M.; Lavelle, Allison D. – College & Research Libraries, 2018
The academic library is changing. No longer simply a warehouse of information, the university library is a place for students and patrons to study, collaborate, socialize, and learn through social activities. This change in use reflects a paradigmatic shift from understanding the library as information repository to understanding the library as…
Descriptors: College Libraries, Educational Facilities Design, Space Utilization, Student Needs
Everatt, John; Fletcher, Jo; Fickel, Letitia – Education 3-13, 2019
In New Zealand, school buildings are being remodelled to accommodate several teachers and a large number of learners in one flexible learning space. School leaders' perspectives were sought on what is happening in the teaching of reading, writing and mathematics. Interviews of the principal and deputy principal at a case study were conducted, and…
Descriptors: School Administration, Administrator Attitudes, Educational Innovation, Educational Environment
Bojesen, Emile – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2017
Informed by the work of the work of Michel Foucault, Ian Hunter, and Ansgar Allen, this paper argues that I/MLEs are not the creation of a "modern" or "innovative" learning environment but rather the reclamation of an educational technique that was pioneered en masse almost two centuries ago (and based on practices many…
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, Space Utilization, Educational Environment, Educational Policy