Learning & Teaching Conference 2014 The Learning Process – how do we create the right environment? Bev Robinson Estate Support Service 18 June 2014

Programme Innovative learning space & Newcastle University L & T refurbishments – Bev Robinson ESS Technology enhanced learning – Dave Alsop ISS AVS Sunderland University– Iain Garfield SU Estate Service Good places for HE learning; Diamond ranking exercise – Pam Woolner ECLES Workshop questions Key Principles for developing new learning spaces

Collaborative Lecture theatre Loughborough University

Collaborative Lecture Theatre Queens University Belfast

Melbourne University Engineering classroom

Melbourne University Spatial laboratory

Seminar rooms

PC cluster refurbishment – Daysh 1.31 before

PC cluster refurbishment – Daysh 1.31 design

PC cluster refurbishment – Daysh 1.31 after

Ridley Nereid Cluster Increased from 24 to 30 PC work stations. Posters to go up on the walls. Before After

Seminar Room – Bedson 3.31

Playrooms and sandpits Dave Alsop ISS Audio Visual and Digital Media Services

Reliable, easy to operate technology A range of supplementary learning and teaching tools Some innovative learning and teaching spaces

Playrooms and sandpits

The LaTTE project Learning and Teaching Test Environment The LaTTE Project Estates & facilities Timetabling Learning Information Services Centre for Technology Enhanced Learning IT Services Staff and Students Vice Chancellor £ £ £

The LaTTE project The LaTTE room Original layout KEY REQUIREMENTS PC screens and magnetic boards at each workstation Power sockets for student electronic devices Suitable lighting Removing the barrier between staff and students Learning and Teaching Test Environment

The LaTTE project STUDENT FEEDBACK 85% appreciated that the layout of the room facilitated group work 70% felt the room has impacted positively on their learning 70% liked the ability to have the main screen projected onto a screen next to each table. STAFF FEEDBACK “The room encourages debate and communication; peer to peer as well as peer to student” “It allows the swapping of pedagogical approaches without having to swap rooms” “Staff can assist students individually or in groups in a more accessible way” Learning and Teaching Test Environment

[insert project name here] ESSTimetabling ISS Learning Technology Services QuILT ISS AV Services Staff and Students [insert project name here] ESSTimetabling ISS Learning Technology Services QuILT ISS AV Services Staff and Students The Newcastle approach Senior Mng £ £ £

We need you! Would you be willing to: Work with us during the project? Experiment with different ways of teaching in a less- familiar environment? Suggest technologies would you like to see evaluated or designed into a space like this? Help us think of a suitably catchy acronym for the project name?