The first part of this blog post interrogated the structural rigidity that emerges from physical classroom design and made the case that connected learning requires a different design and emotional response from teaching spaces to be successful. This final part looks at how teaching space needs to shift the dynamics, functions, and relationships within theContinue reading “Making space for connected learning: an ecosystem approach to designing teaching spaces in higher education part 2“
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Hybrid teaching workshops: upskilling educators to deliver hybrid classes
The challenge The Covid-19 pandemic has fundamentally challenged teaching and learning practices in higher education. In early 2020, the University of Sydney Business School joined many other institutions in rapidly pivoting to online teaching in response to social distancing requirements. While online and blended delivery modes were practised pre-pandemic, more traditional face-to-face teaching methods wereContinue reading “Hybrid teaching workshops: upskilling educators to deliver hybrid classes”
Scaling up: Learning space design to support large (inter)active workshops
The Covid-19 pandemic has disrupted the way space is used in education, forcing educators to innovatively support learning in a range of hybrid spaces that seek greater integration of the physical and virtual, or bring the relational more fully into online settings. Supporting this range of modes at scale presents challenges in terms of equityContinue reading “Scaling up: Learning space design to support large (inter)active workshops”
Making the most of the spaces we have: Design principles for successful hybrid and hyflex learning
Hybrid and hyflex learning are lasting legacies of our years of pandemic education. For educators at scale, with cohorts spread across the world by closed borders, these modes of delivery are a necessary response to ensure a safe return to campus and the ongoing online education of vulnerable and offshore students. Hyflex learning in particularContinue reading “Making the most of the spaces we have: Design principles for successful hybrid and hyflex learning”