Let’s be Creative!

Learning Space Design

Jacquie Kelly

www.jiscinfonet.ac.uk

What do we have?

You cannot expect old designs to work in new circumstances

Birmingham Metropolitan College

What could learning be like?

‘All learning starts with conversation’

John Seely Brown

Northumbria University

What are we trying to do?

….. Creating the conditions to enable flow experiences that motivate and engage learners

Saltire Centre, Glasgow University

Northumbria UniversityUniversity of Cumbria

What does the infoKit give you?

What does the infoKit give you? Analysis

Anticipation

in the sector as a whole

institutionally

What is going on out there? with learners

with technology

   

Matthew Boulton College

What does the infoKit give you? Planning

Insight

Imagination

What does it mean to us?

how will learning change?

how will we use technology in

learning?

What are the possibilities?

where do we get inspiration/ideas

who do we involve

Developing the vision

methods for stimulating ideas

Glasgow Caledonian Univeristy

What will the infoKit give you? Implementation

Execution

governance

working with othersHow do we make it

happen?

Procurement collecting and analysing feedback

Where do we go next?

future-proofingsustainability

North Hertfordshire College

What does the infoKit give you? Evaluation

Evaluation

questions to ask

How do you know that it has worked?

Evaluating Use of Technology

collecting and analysing data

Using Evaluation & Review

acting on FeedbackLetting people know

University of East London

What does the infoKit give you? Resource Collection

Resource Collection

Case Studies various views

Flickr photo library fully described and tagged

Virtual Campus good practice from around the section

Publications, articles etc

Further Resources

Case StudiesSharing experiences

www.flickr.com/photos/jiscinfonet

‘I believe passionately that when you walk through the door of a place of learning, you should feel proud, uplifted, motivated… That should be our intent.’Mark Haysom, Chief Executive of the Learning and Skills Council

Durham University

Relating Creativity to Learning Spaces

Creativity is about doing things differently in

order to gain some extra value.

Designing spaces that enable us to challenge our existing assumptions and expectations requires us to be open to creating new kinds of spaces – ones that work in new ways and stimulate new insights.

Northumbria University

Birmingham Metropolitan College

Metaphor as a techniqueYour local council has funding for a new community college to be built in an area that has no local college. High unemployment with very few local people taking up further and higher education – transport appears to be one major issue.

The community library is very heavily used and is in need of refurbishment and update.

Plan: to incorporate the community library into the community college new build.

Glasgow Caledonian University

Georgia Institute of Technology

Building upon your own experience and ideas

Discuss suitable metaphors for your space – choose 1

Using this as a guide, sketch out your ideas for the new community library

Glasgow Caledonian University

e-assessment@Bradford University

Royal Holloway, London

Planning and Designing Technology-Rich Learning Spaces

Freely available online resourcehttp://www.jiscinfonet.ac.uk/