Benefits of Green Schools (03-14-13)
Information collected by McGraw-Hill during its 2012 Green Schools Study indicates that there are significant benefits from greening schools.
Information collected by McGraw-Hill during its 2012 Green Schools Study indicates that there are significant benefits from greening schools.
Criteria for designing successful common dorm spaces.
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.”
A recent study at the University of Michigan supports co-locating team members.
Nugent provides many practical suggestions for the design of residential common areas that college students are likely to use.
Thompson and his research team set out to learn about “the effect of background music on reading comprehension.”
New studies in school design research are particularly applicable as teachers adapt more active forms of learning.
Trying to design to make healthy eating more likely?
Dewar and her colleagues make the case for wakeful resting, a state that can be supported by design.
Can artificial light help students learn? Do professors prefer open-plan offices?