Optimize Learning Outcomes

People with ASD or ADHD live better lives when places and objects they use are designed to reflect how they experience their physical world.

How do open plan classrooms in middle schools stack up against other sorts of learning spaces?  

Effective floor plans share certain features.

Scents can support design objectives.

The sorts of exterior and interior views that are best in different situations and what influence different types of scenes have on our thoughts and behaviors are well documented.

Comprehensive collection of case studies of undergraduate learning and recreational environments. 

A number of tools useful to people designing academic environments are available free of charge at the web address noted below. 

Sanders probed the relationship between the arrangement of chairs in classrooms and student engagement. 

Can classroom window views improve grades, or do they just make students feel better?

Kang and Williamson investigated how hearing music influences learning a second language.