The Technology Enabled Learning Lab (TELL) is a concept for a highly flexible space in which students and their lecturers can work together in small groups on a variety of different types of collaborative and creative work, while making use of a range of digital and analogue facilities within the room. The concept developed out of…
Between the end of semester 1 and start of semester 2, we surveyed staff who had been timetabled into a PC lab at some point during the 2016/17 academic year to find out their opinion of PC labs as learning spaces, including the types of activity undertaken within the labs, lecturers’ reasons for choosing a PC lab,…
It is useful to reflect on our work this year in which we have sought to develop appreciation of how learning spaces relate to academic practice and the student experience. This is the first of a number of posts over the next few weeks that will bring a wide range of work into focus around…
As part of the toolkit’s focus on the active classroom, a new article has been added that looks at whether student participation in class should be assessed.
An 8 page publication looking at dimensions of Teaching in Active Learning Classrooms has been produced to coincide with the University Learning & Teaching Conference. The PDF document, downloadable here, draws upon the Spaces for Learning toolkit. It covers the Active Learning Classroom, Problem-based Learning, Whiteboarding, Stand Up Pedagogy, SCALE UP, and Triad groups for active learning.…
A new section in this toolkit has been developed to explore ‘whiteboarding’ – how student activities centred around visualising ideas, problems and concepts can engage small groups in co-productive activities. See pages on, Whiteboarding Listing Sorting Concept mapping Capturing whiteboard activities Technology-enhanced generative activities and tools
Please visit our pre-workshop activity on CAFE (click post title to show link) to find out more about active, flexible and experience learning techniques in the classroom. The activity includes links to resources in this toolkit site.
A series of pages on Teaching in Active Learning Classrooms has been developed for the site based on workshop materials we have developed to support the shift from ‘traditional’ teacher-centred approaches to student-centred methods. In this series, you will find information on, Good active teaching – preparing, running and managing the active learning classroom Common…