Posted in Teaching and Learning on Mar 26th, 2008 No Comments »
The following two spaces which I visited are unique in which they are located within the faculties and are designated as multi purpose learning space for the students within those faculties.
The industrial engineering lab is what they call it although it is really not a lab in the traditional sense. It is a large space [...]
Posted in Teaching and Learning on Mar 26th, 2008 No Comments »
I went to a few what I would frame as ‘informal’ learning spaces, including café spaces. I randomly talked to a few students while taking pictures of these out of class spaces where students gathered. Mostly I talked to groups of students whom seemed to be working on some sort of study, judging from the [...]
Posted in Teaching and Learning on Feb 27th, 2008 No Comments »
I mentioned the classroom design workshop to a group of postgraduate students whom were also doing their individual studies on various educational topics. And surprisingly, they were very interested in such issues. For example, they recognized that group discussions and group work were an important part of their learning experiences, yet the [...]
Posted in General, Teaching and Learning on Nov 30th, 2007 4 Comments »
One of the main features of the new campus is the creation of space for the “Learning Commons”. It’s a rather new concept within higher education institutes, but basically has emerged in the recent years together with many of the reform and rethinking about what higher education should be like in today’s world and [...]
