What Sort of Spaces Promote Learning?
Applying design research makes it more likely that environments support educational programs.
Optimize Learning Outcomes
Flexible Classroom Design for Writing Classes (02-06-13)
Miller-Cochran and Gierdowski have learned that flexible classroom design cost-effectively supports composition (writing) classes.
Designing Higher Education Environments FOR Students
Criteria for designing successful common dorm spaces.
When is sound noise? What should designers know?
A review of the research and two important resources for those designing spaces that are pleasing acoustically.
Academic Commons (12-21-12)
In October 2011 a team of professionals (architects, campus administrators, and higher education association leaders) met with students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison “to consider the relationship between physical place and campus community.”
Star Trek Classrooms (11-30-12)
Researchers at Durham University explored the learning repercussions of multi—touch, multi-user desks.
Confirming Problems with Light at Night (11-12-12)
Recent research at Johns Hopkins confirms previous research linking negative outcomes to human experience of light at night.
Designing Residential Commons Areas Students Use (11-01-12)
Nugent provides many practical suggestions for the design of residential common areas that college students are likely to use.
Designing Schools That Support New Learning Methods
New studies in school design research are particularly applicable as teachers adapt more active forms of learning.
Personal Learning Environments
What do designers need to know about personal learning environments?