Five Approaches to Guide the Planning, Design, and Use of Active Learning Classroom Spaces

Natasha Kenny and Gavan Watson just published a couple of great posts on active learning classroom spaces:

Gavan Watson: Guiding the planning, design and use of active learning classrooms (part 1)

Natasha Kenny: Five approaches to guide the planning, design, and use of active learning classroom spaces (part 2)

The 5 approaches:

1. Collaboration
2. Community
3. Flexibility
4. Transparency
5. Access

Both posts are chock full of linky goodness. And, I’m glad they’re both blogging. Long live the blog!

See Also

• Ideas on the documentation and interpretation of interactions in a classroom environment
• Sommer (1969). Personal Space: The behavioral basis of design
• Projects and Squiggles
• Notes: Wermeskerken et al. Effects of Instructor Presence in Video Modelling Examples on Attention and Learning
• Design thinking, with giant lobsters