STLHE / Planning for Learning Environments; Maximizing Your Institutional Resources

This was a presentation delivered at the STLHE conference in Montreal on 06/21/12.

Transcript

1. Planning for Learning Environments: Maximizing Your Institutional Resources STLHE 2012 SAPES Learning Without Boundaries? Apprentissage Sans Limites? June 21, 2012 Rick Jones, AIA, LEED AP Jones Architecture 10 Derby Square Salem, MA 01970 O: 978.744.5200 W: www.jonesarch.com NEWS: www.jonesarch.com/news
2. JONES ARCHITECTURE: We are an architecture practice with a focus on programming, planning, and design for higher education. OUR MISSION: Support our clients in the broadest sense as they seek to shape their environment.
3. Planning for Learning Environments: Maximizing Your Institutional Resources
4. Aging Physical Plants Necessitate Improved Learning Environments Growth Goals Demand Additional Space Rapidly Changing Technology Requires Robust and Flexible Infrastructure Resilient Space Types Persist Case Study Classrooms, Auditoriums, Rational Lab Modules, “Sage on the Stage” Emergence of Interdisciplinary Learning and Changing Pedagogy Yields New Space Types Learning Commons, Digital Media Suites, SCALE-UP Classrooms (Student- Centered Active Learning Environments), “Guide on the Side”
5. QUESTION: What other demands are being placed on learning environments at your Institution?
6. Reduced Carbon Footprint
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8. How do we balance these forces?
9. LEARNING OUTCOMES How to fi nd the right BLEND of learning space types for your program need How to fi nd the right learning environment FIT for your institutional culture How to fi nd the HIGHEST AND BEST USE for existing spaces
10. CASE STUDY Norwich University