Space User Profiles
Different places for different people
Different places for different people
Harris and Whiting evaluated online learning experiences and their findings can likely be extended to other contexts. The investigators found that “Participants in online classrooms struggle to make sense of emotional interactions. This is due to the separation of physical place between persons and the inability to see the reaction of bodies in online classrooms. . . . This study uses a microethnographic approach to observe two online multicultural education courses over a 7-week term to explore the normative and socially organized practices of affect and emotion. . . .
Stereotypes' powerful effects
Seeing all, seeing better
CADRE, HKS, and Uplift Education have written a guide to designing learning environments that support social and emotional learning, which is available free of charge (“Enriched Environments to Support Social and Emotional Learning: A Visual Design Guide,” https://www.cadreresearch.org/enriched-environments ). The webpage from which this resource can be downloaded effectively describes it: “This visual design guide contains 18 evidence-based design strategies, to be used when designing enriched learning environmen
Design can support learning (and remembering!) new material, whether we’re at work, at school, or somewhere else entirely. Using in practice what neuroscientists have unearthed makes “lessons” more productive and positive educational outcomes more likely.
Altenburger studied how students experience safety-related design features at their schools.
Rahal, Wells, and Evan’s research confirms the value of locating schools in greenspaces.
Design daycare centers for grades later
A team from UCLA has confirmed that, to some extent, our knowledge is linked to place; their work is published in Science of Learning.