Creating the Digital Campus
ACTIVE LEARNING SPACES and TECHNOLOGY
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Creating the Digital Campus explores how the
Digital Classroom Roadshow pushed forward the
engagement of stakeholders from across the campus
(Academic Development, IT / AV, Estates, Timetabling,
Space Management, etc.) to better ensure that these
new spaces were focused on delivering facilities that
make the greatest positive contribution to learning and
teaching.
But new furniture and technology cannot by itself
create the desired outcomes. We must change the
culture and delivery of learning; topics explored by
Anne Llewellyn and Richard Sober and Tom Duff in
their thought provoking contributions to the discussion.
Dr Alastair D. Robertson - Director of Teaching and
Learning Enhancement at Abertay University - provides
a comprehensive insight into Active Learning
Design, and explains how the Digital Classroom
Roadshow that he and colleagues visited at Heriot-Watt
University, helped their thinking for a cross-campus
approach.
Dr Rachael Foy, Anne Stevenson, Kelly Swallow and Dr
Nicola Cannon from the Royal Agricultural University
explore their student engagements with the Digital
Classroom Roadshow during its four weeks tenure in
Gloucestershire.
As the HE sector comes to terms with the newly
introduced Teaching Excellence Framework, active
learning spaces have been proven to help with student
engagement, student retention, higher levels of
academic attainment and the development of
employability skills.
Higher Education sector-wide trends are influencing
campus developments:
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Developments should be pedagogic-led with
technology, estates and timetabling contributing a
critical role in creating learning environments that
support new pedagogic approaches.
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Active learning environments, such as the Digital
Classroom that enable higher student engagements
and improved learning outcomes, impact on room
capacities and space utilisation levels. New layouts
will reduce capacity, but overall space utilisation
dramatically improves as students use these spaces
for self-directed learning outside of taught hours.
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Lecture theatres are experiencing
transformations to large cohort spaces that can still be
used didactically, but which also enable small-group
collaborative learning modes. Developments, such as
the Collaborative Wave, will utilise wireless
collaborative technology to enable new pedagogic
engagements.
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Technology isn’t standing still. True innovation
won’t happen if technology only substitutes traditional
pedagogic engagements. Technology offers far more
digitally-rich opportunities than many people realise,
but requires networks to enable it, not limit it, and
intuitive implementations that academics have the
confidence (and training) to use.
Historically, those responsible for campus networks
have unwittingly held back many potential learning
enhancements by not providing support for them. In
a new era of student-centric solutions across the
campus, it’s now time for those in IT and AV to listen
to and better understand the needs of academics and
students, and to provide the necessary infrastructures
to support students using these new digital tools.
In 2015, Jisc - the Government organisation providing
digital solutions for UK education and research -
supported the Digital Classroom Roadshow that
provided a new hands-on engagement for universities
and colleges exploring new active learning spaces.
Each roadshow venue lasted for 4 weeks, and
provided the host with a fully configured wireless
collaborative environment that would host many
workshops, conversations and meetings as
stakeholders from across the campus explored
creating new active learning environments. Unlike
exhibitions and conferences on new learning spaces,
the roadshow was an authentic new learning space
that facilitated full connectivity and participation.
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