TY - JOUR
T1 - Mapping next generation learning spaces as a designed quality enhancement process
AU - Leonard, Simon N.
AU - Fitzgerald, Robert N.
AU - Bacon, Matt
AU - Munnerley, Danny
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
PY - 2017/5/4
Y1 - 2017/5/4
N2 - The learning spaces of higher education are changing with collaborative, agile and technology-enabled spaces ever more popular. Despite the massive investment required to create these new spaces, current quality systems are poorly placed to account for the value they create. Such learning spaces are typically popular with students but the impact they have on learning outcomes is difficult to capture. Taking a design-research approach, this paper presents a way of assessing the value of learning spaces in context through systematically mapping the expectations reified in their designs. While presenting a series of specific tools that support this mapping exercise, this paper also contributes to a larger conversation about the sorts of tools and processes the academic community might use in accounting for the quality of its work.
AB - The learning spaces of higher education are changing with collaborative, agile and technology-enabled spaces ever more popular. Despite the massive investment required to create these new spaces, current quality systems are poorly placed to account for the value they create. Such learning spaces are typically popular with students but the impact they have on learning outcomes is difficult to capture. Taking a design-research approach, this paper presents a way of assessing the value of learning spaces in context through systematically mapping the expectations reified in their designs. While presenting a series of specific tools that support this mapping exercise, this paper also contributes to a larger conversation about the sorts of tools and processes the academic community might use in accounting for the quality of its work.
KW - conjecture mapping, higher education, quality
KW - Design thinking
KW - expansive learning
KW - next generation learning spaces
KW - visible decision-making
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85028831508&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/13538322.2017.1358955
DO - 10.1080/13538322.2017.1358955
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85028831508
SN - 1353-8322
VL - 23
SP - 168
EP - 182
JO - Quality in Higher Education
JF - Quality in Higher Education
IS - 2
ER -