"The new Science Teaching and Student Services building at the University of Minnesota will have 10 Active Learning Classrooms. Active Learning Classrooms allow for students to experience a more interactive and conversational educational environment. With round tables for discussion and high-tech accessories for interactivity, these classrooms will service more than 125 class sections this fall."
Encoding Space: Shaping Learning Environments That Unlock Human Potential by
Can we create library environments that inspire people to be more creative, collaborative, reflective, or engaged? That is the driving question of this imaginative book. Brian Mathews weaves elements together from architecture, psychology, retail, neuroscience, and many other disciplines in this narrative about the evolution of library buildings.
Engaging Ideas: the Professor's Guide to Integrating Writing, Critical Thinking, and Active Learning in the Classroom by
Learn to design interest-provoking writing and critical thinking activities and incorporate them into your courses in a way that encourages inquiry, exploration, discussion, and debate, with Engaging Ideas, a practical nuts-and-bolts guide for teachers from any discipline. Integrating critical thinking with writing-across-the-curriculum approaches, the book shows how teachers from any discipline can incorporate these activities into their courses. This edition features new material dealing with genre and discourse community theory, quantitative/scientific literacy, blended and online learning, and other current issues.
“A primary responsibility of educators is that they...recognize in the concrete what surroundings are conducive to having experiences that lead to growth. Above all, they should know how to utilize the surroundings, physical and social, that exist so as to extract from them all that they have to contribute to building up experiences that are worth while”
--John Dewey, Experience and Education (1938)
Creating meaningful learning experiences for 21st-century skills requires flexible Active Learning Classrooms (ALCs) that allow students to engage in collaboration, creation, critical thinking, and curating. CCP is scheduled to convert BR-37 and C3-29 into ALCs by Fall 2016. Turn your classroom into a courtroom, a small business, a hospital room, a senatorial debate, a movie studio, or a modern office space. Below are classroom designs, furniture arrangements, and materials for converting your space into an ALC.
