4 Questions to Guide Classroom Design. By next year, the University of Oklahoma will have nearly a dozen active learning spaces, up from one in 2012. Every single classroom looks different from the ...

It is important to include representatives of each group when discussing the layout and execution of an active-learning classroom. 2. Eliminate the Front of the Classroom. A key element of an ...

The Classroom Evolved. This is the first segment in a three-part series of articles focused on classroom design. Each article in the series looks at a how schools are reinterpreting the traditional ...

There is a fair amount of research into the impact of classroom design on student learning. Spaces flooded with natural light that allow for a variety of learning methods and activities, and spaces ...

Students enter my classroom with a plethora of emotional concerns that interfere with learning. Active learning environments provide a unique level of comfort for students, evident in my classroom.

The LSRS is similar to the popular rating program for LEED, or Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, but is tailored to higher education. Instead of measuring sustainable building design, it ...

“These findings lead to a very concrete policy recommendation: increase access to active learning spaces,” says the study, led by Michael C. Ralph, a Ph.D. candidate in educational psychology at the ...

Researchers randomly assigned college students in a physics course to either an active-learning classroom or a passive-learning one relying on lectures. Instructors in both taught the same material.

6 Secrets of Active Learning Classroom Design. 07/08/15; Collings 325 at the University of Oklahoma. Like a jazz dance performance, active learning combines doing, movement and impromptu variety in a ...

The Classroom Evolved. This is the first segment in a three-part series of articles focused on classroom design. Each article in the series looks at a how schools are reinterpreting the traditional ...