ELI Discovery Tool: Learning Space Workshop Guide

We know that space can affect learning—but how? The answer to that question depends not only on our understanding of how people learn, but also our understanding of learners. And, as information technology becomes more and more integral to teaching and learning, we also need to understand its implications for learning spaces.

The ELI Discovery Tool: Learning Space Workshop Guide can help you and others at your institution answer that question. It is designed as an action-oriented, modifiable, modular resource for faculty development and other staff learning events.

The units can be used as a stand-alone activity, lasting perhaps two hours, or all units can be combined for a multiday faculty development event. Through the guide’s activities, participants will:

develop awareness of the important role of learning spaces in the learning process
become familiar with the importance characteristics of learning spaces
explore what their students think about the places learning occurs
understand the learner-centered principles that underlie effective learning space design
review and discuss examples of effective learning spaces
examine their assumptions about the effects of place on learning
learn about assessing learning spaces
develop a set of guiding principles and beliefs that underlie their institution’s learning space design efforts

You can customize the guide by adding your own material or modifying what you find here. If you do so, please share your customizations with us so we can improve the guide for the rest of the ELI community.

For more information and resources on learning space design, see the ELI Learning Space Design Web page. If you have questions or comments, please contact us.

Learning Space Workshop Guide Units

Unit 1: Enabled Activities [150 KB DOC]
Unit 2: Important Characteristics [148 KB DOC]
Unit 3: Student Discovery [123 KB DOC]
Unit 4: Learner-Centered Principles [146 KB DOC]
Unit 5: Case Studies [144 KB DOC]
Unit 6: Checking Assumptions [124 KB DOC]
Unit 7: Assessment [128 KB DOC]
Unit 8: Guiding Principles [140 KB DOC]
Additional Resources [130 KB DOC]

ELI Discovery Tools		ELI Discovery Tool: Learning Space Workshop Guide We know that space can affect learning—but how? The answer to that question depends not only on our understanding of how people learn, but also our understanding of learners. And, as information technology becomes more and more integral to teaching and learning, we also need to understand its implications for learning spaces. The ELI Discovery Tool: Learning Space Workshop Guide can help you and others at your institution answer that question. It is designed as an action-oriented, modifiable, modular resource for faculty development and other staff learning events. The units can be used as a stand-alone activity, lasting perhaps two hours, or all units can be combined for a multiday faculty development event. Through the guide’s activities, participants will: develop awareness of the important role of learning spaces in the learning process become familiar with the importance characteristics of learning spaces explore what their students think about the places learning occurs understand the learner-centered principles that underlie effective learning space design review and discuss examples of effective learning spaces examine their assumptions about the effects of place on learning learn about assessing learning spaces develop a set of guiding principles and beliefs that underlie their institution’s learning space design efforts You can customize the guide by adding your own material or modifying what you find here. If you do so, please share your customizations with us so we can improve the guide for the rest of the ELI community. For more information and resources on learning space design, see the ELI Learning Space Design Web page. If you have questions or comments, please contact us. Learning Space Workshop Guide Units Unit 1: Enabled Activities [150 KB DOC] Unit 2: Important Characteristics [148 KB DOC] Unit 3: Student Discovery [123 KB DOC] Unit 4: Learner-Centered Principles [146 KB DOC] Unit 5: Case Studies [144 KB DOC] Unit 6: Checking Assumptions [124 KB DOC] Unit 7: Assessment [128 KB DOC] Unit 8: Guiding Principles [140 KB DOC] Additional Resources [130 KB DOC]
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