Innovative Learning Spaces – Designing, Developing, and Sustaining Future-Ready Classrooms
Workshop Session
Abstract
At this workshop we invite you to explore what future classrooms look like for you and your organizations. We commence with insights into the process, findings and the sixteen recommendations from the project “Classroom of the Future”, at Aalborg University, Denmark. The project included thorough investigation into current and up-and-coming practices internationally and locally, as well as teaching experiments within various classrooms. The project focused on physical locations and specifically digital supported learning tools applied in these physical setups including active learning spaces and hybrid teaching formats. During this workshop we invite you to reflect on our findings and contribute with further perspectives on the operationalization of innovative learning spaces. From these perspectives, we move into a co-design phase, where we will work with various materials and dialogues facilitated based on a selected number of questions. During the design phase, you get the opportunity to share with the other workshop participants, about your experiences with different teaching rooms and their pedagogical use, reflect on the findings from the presented project and design your dream future-ready classroom.
Workshop Organisers
Rune Hagel Skaarup Jensen
Center for Digitally Supported Learning, Aalborg University, Aalborg
Cand. Scient in Technoantropology. Currently Digital Learning consultant at Center for Digitally Supported Learning, at Institute for Applied Studies in Problem-based Learning at Aalborg University, where he is focused learning technologies and learning spaces. He was the project manager of the strategic project “Classroom of the Future”.
Rikke Ørngreen
Research center for Video and the IT and LearningDesign laboratory, Department of Culture and Learning, Aalborg University, Copenhagen
Professor and Head of research for the Department of Culture and Learning, Aalborg University. Research theories, methods and tools in the design, implementation and evaluation of digital processes, in particular video-based activities that support knowledge sharing, learning, creativity, and reflexivity. Member of the IT and LearningDesign laboratory (ILD-lab) and head of the Research center for Video.
Sara Paasch Knudsen
Research center for Video and the IT and LearningDesign laboratory, Department of Culture and Learning, Aalborg University, Copenhagen
Teaching associate professor at the Department of Culture and Learning, Aalborg University. Her research interest covers the use of technology for and around learning and the organizational implementation surrounding the use of technology. Member of the IT and LearningDesign laboratory (ILD-lab) and the Research center for Video.
Heidi Hautopp
Research center for Video and the IT and LearningDesign laboratory, Department of Culture and Learning, Aalborg University, Copenhagen
Assistant Professor at the Department of Culture and Learning, Aalborg University. Her research interest revolves around how facilitation of audio-visual methods and design processes can be applied and developed as idea generating- and communication tools across different academic disciplines. Member of the IT and LearningDesign laboratory (ILD-lab) and the Research center for Video.
Background and Motivation
The overall topic is to work with is what constitutes innovative learning spaces in the near future. There is a lot of new and digital supported learning and teaching approaches emerging, but it is an ongoing question to address how best practices and sustainable solutions look like. The aim is to get people from different organizations and cultures to work on possible designs, share experiences, and reflect in smaller groups. We do this by using a specific tool (Tinker Cubes – see picture). The workshop has been done internally at Aalborg University (AAU) at the annual Learning Day, but with a slightly different approach since the participants were all from AAU.
Topics and scope
The topic of the workshop builds on the themes design, learning, and innovation. We will, in the workshop, use both participatory methods and co-design approaches.
Format
Participants will work in groups of four people with Tinker Cubes, where they will design ideas for future classrooms and reflect on different questions posed by the facilitators.
We would prefer a maximum of 32 participants.
The workshop requires min. 1 hour and preferred 1,5-2 hours.