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- Capacity: 94 students
- Type: Tiered classroom
Alignment with principles for designing Teaching and Learning Spaces
Academic challenge
Promote individual, active engagement with content.
Layout
Substantial work surfaces for notebooks, laptops, and textbooks.
Acoustics: Acoustic design to avoid distraction from outside and inside sources.
Learning with peers
Promote active engagement with one another.
Layout
Promotes face-to-face communication through two rows on a tier, so students can turn and discuss in pairs or small groups. Students can move about the classroom with ease due to centre and side aisles. Unobstructed sightlines.
Acoustics: Sound zones support multiple simultaneous conversations among students. Appropriate amplification is available, with a push-button microphone for students placed every couple of chairs.
Experiences with faculty
Promote interaction and communication.
Layout
Instructor is not limited to the 鈥渇ront of the room鈥� and instead has access to all students due to unobstructed sightlines and the aisles.
Acoustics: Sound zones ensure that not only are students able to hear the instructor, but that the instructor is also able to hear the students. Wireless and wired (headset) audio amplification available for instructors.
Contributions to the campus environment
Classrooms that incorporate elements of active and collaborative learning are part of a vision for a variety of flexible campus learning spaces. This classroom is designed for all populations using the space: well-lit, with a standardized room control panel that simplifies instructors鈥� use of equipment in classrooms across campus. IT is consistent with teaching and learning needs, and durable furniture contributes to sustainability efforts. Both physical and virtual affordances help maximize High Impact Practices (HIPs) for student learning within and beyond this classroom.
