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Evaluating Learning Environments

Snapshots of Emerging Issues, Methods and Knowledge

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Editors:
  1. Wesley Imms

    1. University of Melbourne, Australia

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  2. Benjamin Cleveland

    1. University of Melbourne, Australia

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  3. Kenn Fisher

    1. University of Melbourne, Australia

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  • Evaluating Learning Environments offers a focused, evidence-based approach to evaluation of learning environments.
  • The book presents emerging issues, methods and knowledge, provided by experienced industry professionals within the rigour of a top-level doctoral degree.
  • The book presents readers with the widest array of approaches to learning space evaluations, from empirical research to qualitative approaches that embrace affective domain.

Part of the book series: Advances in Learning Environments Research (ALER)

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vii
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  2. Introduction

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Pursuing that Elusive Evidence about what Works in Learning Environment Design

      • Wesley Imms, Benjamin Cleveland, Kenn Fisher
      Pages 3-17

  3. Emerging Issues

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 19-19
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    2. New Generation Learning Environments

      • Wesley Imms
      Pages 21-34

    3. What Works

      • Mark Osborne
      Pages 35-43

    4. What Works? Emerging Issues

      • Lindy Osborne
      Pages 45-63

    5. Architects as Agents for Organisational Change in New Generation Learning Spaces

      • David Clarke
      Pages 65-74

    6. Working Together in the Space-Between

      • Chris Bradbeer
      Pages 75-90
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About this book

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.



Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Melbourne, Australia

    Wesley Imms, Benjamin Cleveland, Kenn Fisher

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Evaluating Learning Environments

  • Book Subtitle: Snapshots of Emerging Issues, Methods and Knowledge

  • Editors: Wesley Imms, Benjamin Cleveland, Kenn Fisher

  • Series Title: Advances in Learning Environments Research

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-537-1

  • Publisher: SensePublishers Rotterdam

  • eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: SensePublishers-Rotterdam, The Netherlands 2016

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-6300-537-1Published: 27 September 2016

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VIII, 258

  • Topics: Education, general

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