Finland is often looked to for leadership in how to create great educational experiences and outcomes for students. Here’s a brief article from 2012 in Education Week around some of their schools design.
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Seven Principles for Classroom Design: The Learning Space Rating System
The Learning Space Rating System is one of the resources available in the Toolkits/Benchmarking section of this site. It allows institutions to score a formal classroom’s design to see how well it supports active learning, though assessing the performance… Continue Reading
NMC Horizon report – impact on physical learning spaces
The annual NMC Horizon Report identifies and describes “emerging technologies likely to have an impact on learning, teaching, and creative inquiry in education”. This is one of the most keenly anticipated documents of each year with several versions (including one focusing specifically… Continue Reading
What messages are our corridors giving to our students
It’s always a great feeling when you are sitting at a conference and a speaker really makes you stop and go “why haven’t I thought of that before?” This happened to me recently at the 2 day IQPC 2015 Learning… Continue Reading