Learning Studios                  

Engaging Students Through The Design of Learning Spaces
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Today's Millennial college students are visual learners, social networkers, Internet enthusiasts, optimists, multitaskers, gadget fanatics, and inductive learners.  Their learning styles and modes of interaction are not in sync with the traditional classrooms and lecture halls found throught American higher education.  National systems that measure the levels of engagement between student  and faculty are strongly correlated with the student success.  Yet, many young students are becoming disengaged from the very learning community colleges and universities have to offer.

Can we afford to risk the success of our future students? What else can higher education do to enhance student learning and thus student success? We propose using space known as Learning Studios which can facilitate engagement between students and faculty and thereby enhance student success!

Learning Studios provide a mixture of relaxed discussion and study areas, workspaces that expand or contract depending on the students' needs (Herman Miller, 2004).  Most of all, these spaces encourage active and collaborative learning and increase interaction between students and faculty - a key benchmark of student engagement that leads to student sucess!
Design Share (2006)
Links:
Educating The Net Generation
Learning Spaces
Classroom Design - Higher Education
A Vision of Students Today
Contact:
Homero Lopez, Ph.D.
Linda L. Garcia, Ph.D.
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