A first phase of this session will present the major trends of the informal Learning Spaces. Their design principles (location on the campus, layout, furnishing, technology) will be addressed, aligned with the students’ requests regarding their features. Considering the challenges they have to overcome, their typical position in the campus context and in the institution’s strategy, as well as the different kinds of internal and external competitions those spaces have to face in their settlement will be illustrated as well.
As a second phase, and following the exchanges led during the first one, we will foster on the fundamental question of the assessment of the informal Learning Spaces, especially through the angle of the qualification of the practices (teaching and learning ones, and beyond), and discuss the border between the formal and the informal ones.
In that sense, the session will explore the ways to create a common framework and language for the evaluation of the informal spaces.
John Augeri, Paris Ile-de-France Digital University, Paris, FranceJohn Augeri is Deputy Director of the Paris Ile-de-France Digital University consortium, and currently at Sophia University in Tokyo as invited researcher.
Since 2016, he’s managing an international comparative study of Learning Spaces, that will feed this session.
He’s a core member of EDUCAUSE Learning Spaces Constituent group, EDUCAUSE Learning Space Rating System group, of the FLEXspace online repository group.
During the last 36 months, John has been invited more than 55 times as guest, main or keynote speaker in Learning Spaces related conferences on 4 continents, to discuss the international situation and perspectives of the formal and informal innovative physical spaces. He’s regularly acting as advisor for large scale Learning Spaces projects around the world.
He’s been invited five times as visiting researcher in Japan.
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Yolanda Harper, Ashford University , San Diego, USA