This paper was presented at the 2008 Engineering Conference - Innovation Good Practice and Research in Engineering Education.
This Workshop begins by briefly reporting on the JISC funding received by the University of Birmingham to undertake a UK-wide study into how learning technologies influence the design of physical learning spaces.
Attendees at the Workshop will then have opportunity to engage in a design activity for the creation of a new learning space from the principles learnt from the JISCfunded study and to present their proposals at a brief plenary.
Coincident with the UK-wide study the University was undertaking its own development of strategies for new learning space design and was therefore able to become better informed from the JISCfunded survey with its exemplars of good practice.
Some of the work of the Learning and Teaching Facilities Group (LTFG) at Birmingham will be presented at the close of this Workshop by the presentation of two “before and after” examples from Birmingham that show how new and innovative learning spaces have been created that are recognised to contribute to enhancing the learning quality for both modern learners and teachers.
