1. Best Practices Creating Effectively Designed Learning Spaces
Dr. Homero Lopez - Dr. Karen Wells - Dr. Ernest Lara
League Innovations 2011 Conference - February 27, 2011
Indigo 206, Level :15pm – 3:15pm

2. How Do We Create Effectively Designed Learning Spaces?
Tell Us What You Think?
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Enhance engagement & learning
Enhance your educational advantage
There are many types of learning spaces many shapes, forms, and purposes
Research & measurement systems show impact on engagement and learning
Learning styles of Millennials “collide” with traditional environments –They can “disengage”!
Institutions follow a “journey” in stages of development to create effective learning spaces
Best Practices: Creating Effectively Designed Learning Spaces
League Innovations 2011 Conference – February 27, 2011
Indigo 206, Level :15pm – 3:15pm

3. Overview Best Practices: Creating Effectively Designed Learning Spaces
Welcome & Introductions
Input from the Participants
Effectively Designed Learning Spaces
The Learning Studio Model
The Story of the Journey of Two Colleges
Best Practices
Input from the Participants & Wrap Up

4. What We Believe About Learning Spaces
Creating Effectively Designed Learning Spaces
Variety Learning Spaces - shapes, forms, and purposes
Enhance Engagement & Learning
Enhance your Educational Advantage
Institutions follow a “Journey” in Stages of Development
Follow Best Practices
Enhance engagement & learning
Enhance your educational advantage
There are many types of learning spaces many shapes, forms, and purposes
Research & measurement systems show impact on engagement and learning
Learning styles of Millennials “collide” with traditional environments –They can “disengage”!
Institutions follow a “journey” in stages of development to create effective learning spaces

5. Types of Learning Spaces
Traditional Classrooms Transformed
into Learning Studios
Mid - Large Enrollment Lecture Spaces
Specialized, Applied and Laboratory
Open, Commons, Informal Learning
Virtual Learning Spaces Support
Source: EDUCAUSE Quarterly Magazine – Science Learning Center, University of Queensland

6. Traditional Classrooms Transformed in Learning Studios
A “Re-invented” Classroom that Reframes the Learning Relationship
Replaces the “Space-Challenged” Classroom - Changes Traditional Teaching Roles
Challenges Old Assumptions - Instructionally Driven Design Features
Facilitates Engagement
Source: Herman Miller, Inc.

7. Learning Studio Features
Comfortable – Flexible – Highly Functional
Integrated Infrastructure – Creative - Scaleable
Photo Source: Herman Miller, Inc.

8. Effectively Designed Learning Spaces Can Facilitate Student Engagement
National Systems to Measure Student Engagement
Benchmarks: Indicators of Effective Educational Practice
Active & Collaborative Learning
Student-Faculty Interaction
Support for Learners

9. Active Learning Classrooms (ALC)
Source: University of Minnesota
The University is putting up a new building with 9 SCALE-UP classrooms.
Construction of the new Science Teaching and Student Services Building
is scheduled to be complete during the fall 2010

10. Journey to Effective Learning Spaces EXPLORE EXPERIMENT ACTION
Stages of Organizational Change
Followed by Colleges Designing New Learning Spaces
EXPLORE
EXPERIMENT
ACTION

11. Lorain County Community College (OH) Journey to Effective Learning Spaces
A New Approach to Learning Spaces

12. Estrella Mountain Community College (AZ) Journey to Effective Learning Spaces Learning By Design

13. Best Practices Creating Effective Learning Spaces
1. Integrate with Institutional, Strategic, and Visionary Planning
Vision 2015
Master Facilities Plan
2. Create Interdisciplinary Cross Functional Planning Teams of Key Stakeholders:
Faculty, Staff, Students, & Project “Champions”
Establish a Collaborative, meaningful, and Engaging Process
Learning Space Design Team
Request for Proposal (RFP)
4. Challenge Traditional Assumptions about
Teaching & Learning
National Center for Academic Transformation
Travel
Consultants
Architect Selection

14. Best Practices Creating Effective Learning Spaces
5. Clarify Curricular Goals, desired Pedagogies, and Learning Outcomes
6. Seek to Understand the Relationship of Space to Learning, Innovative Pedagogy, Integration of Technology, and Student Engagement
Experimental Classroom
Center for Teaching Excellence
Professional Development
CCSSE
Learn from Others through Visitations, Professional
Conferences, and Review of Professional Literature
8. Seek Professional and Consultant Assistance

15. Best Practices Creating Effective Learning Spaces
9. Conduct Needs Assessment, User Focus Groups, and Research throughout the Process (pre and post occupancy)
Educause
Herman Miller
Pre and Post Occupancy
10. Experiment, Create Prototypes, Replicate, Seek
Partnerships, and Engage in Reflection
Explore Alternatives, Base Decisions on
Sound Information, and Create Models of
Campus Learning Spaces

16. Questions – Comments – Final Thoughts
Best Practices
Creating Effectively Designed Learning Spaces
Questions – Comments – Final Thoughts
What Has Your Experience Been?
Dr. Homero Lopez - Dr. Karen Wells - Dr. Ernest Lara
League Innovations 2011 Conference - February 27, 2011