Evaluating Learning Environments : Snapshots of Emerging Issues, Methods and Knowledge / edited by Wesley Imms, Benjamin Cleveland, Kenn Fisher.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Imms, Wesley, Editor.

Cleveland, Benjamin, Editor.

Fisher, Kenn, Editor.

Series:

Advances in Learning Environments Research

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education.

Local Subjects:

Education.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (VIII, 258 p.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2016.

Place of Publication:

Rotterdam : SensePublishers : Imprint: SensePublishers, 2016.

Summary:

The recent trend in innovative school design has provided exciting places to both learn and teach. New generation learning environments have encouraged educators to unleash responsive pedagogies previously hindered by traditional classrooms, and has allowed students to engage in a variety of learning experiences well beyond the traditional ‘chalk and talk’ common in many schools. These spaces have made cross-disciplinary instruction, collaborative learning, individualised curriculum, ubiquitous technologies, and specialised equipment more accessible than ever before. The quality of occupation of such spaces has also been encouraging. Many learning spaces now resemble places of collegiality, intellectual intrigue and comfort, as opposed to the restrictive and monotonous classrooms many of us experienced in years past. These successes, however, have generated a very real problem. Do these new generation learning environments actually work – and if so, in whatways? Are they leading to the sorts of improved experiences and learning outcomes for students they promise? This book describes strategies for assessing what is actually working. Drawing on the best thinking from our best minds – doctoral students tackling the challenge of isolating space as a variable within the phenomenon of contemporary schooling – Evaluating Learning Environments draws together thirteen approaches to learning environment evaluation that capture the latest thinking in terms of emerging issues, methods and knowledge.

Contents:

Preliminary Material / Wesley Imms , Benjamin Cleveland and Kenn Fisher

Pursuing that Elusive Evidence about What Works in Learning Environment Design / Wesley Imms , Benjamin Cleveland and Kenn Fisher

New Generation Learning Environments / Wesley Imms

What Works / Mark Osborne

What Works? Emerging Issues / Lindy Osborne

Architects as Agents for Organisational Change in New Generation Learning Spaces / David Clarke

Working Together in the Space-Between / Chris Bradbeer

Emerging Methods for the Evaluation of Physical Learning Environments / Benjamin Cleveland

Developing New Learning Environments / Graeme Oliver

A Quasi-Experimental and Single-Subject Research Approach as an Alternative to Traditional Post-Occupancy Evaluation of Learning Environments / Terry Byers

Evaluating Learning Environments for the Inclusion of Students with Hearing Difficulties / Leanne Rose-Munro

The Role of Evaluation as an Educational Space Planning Tool / Ana Sala-Oviedo and Wesley Imms

Emerging Evaluation Knowledge in New Generation Learning Environments / Kenn Fisher

A New Curriculum and A New Learning Space / Niamh Barry and Deirdre Raftery

A New Post Occupancy Evaluation Tool for Assessing the Indoor Environment Quality of Learning Environments / Philippa Soccio

The Effective Teaching and Learning Spatial Framework / Jo Dane

The Emerging Importance of the Affective in Learning Environment Evaluations / Kenn Fisher and Wesley Imms

Evaluating Spaces of Pedagogic Affect / Sarah Healy

Biographies / Wesley Imms , Benjamin Cleveland and Kenn Fisher.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9789463005371

9463005374

OCLC:

959617721