Three Takeaways from Learning Spaces Symposium
Research and stories from the field showcased the full scope of how space affects learning at the Transitions North America symposium.
Harnessing the Power of Active Learning Environments
The Innovative Learning Environments and Teacher Change (ILETC) research project is helping educators optimize active learning environments.
Activating the Classroom
It’s just one of nearly 300 classrooms on the five campuses of HACC, Central Pennsylvania’s Community College, but it’s had an outsized impact at the institution.
Listen: Strategies + Techniques to Engage Students
Two educators passionate about active learning share their strategies and techniques for engaging students. Dr. Julie Marshall, teacher from South Carolina’s Saluda Trail Middle School, and Randy Hall, an educational technology facilitator at the Lower Hudson Regional Information Center in New York, discuss how to reimagine and reinvent classrooms to break down barriers, develop trust and prepare students for the future.
Educators Highlight Active Learning at Scale at ISTE
Steelcase Education promotes active learning at scale at the 2017 ISTE Conference. Two educators share their insights on transforming education.
Verb Active Media Table Activates Large Classrooms
The Verb Active Media Table houses built-in, retractable media to bridge the gap between students, instructors and content.
Active Learning at Scale
Large active learning classrooms and a custom table solution from Steelcase help transform the educational experience at Texas A&M University.
Healthcare Students Engage in New Classrooms
Pennsylvania College of Health Sciences renovated their facility so that learning could happen anywhere, and as a result, students are collaborating and engaging in ways they haven’t seen before. Two PCHS faculty members share how they’ve observed students engaging in the new space.
Active Learning Centers Impact Education
After reimagining the classroom, 12 educational institutions find that their Active Learning Centers result in enhanced collaboration and supported instructor-led changes in pedagogy among other positive outcomes.
A Student’s Story on Active Learning
How the Grand Valley State University library helped me collaborate, create, and learn in a variety of ways.
The Effects of a Stimulating Learning Environment
A dynamic and constantly changing reality requires adaptation and change in educational approaches: the student is no longer to be seen as a passive receptacle for knowledge, but as an active participant in the construction of knowledge.
Award-Winning Teacher Motivates with Active Learning
“The Steelcase Active Learning Classroom is going to start an entire movement of new makers and creators in our community.”