Planning and Designing Technology-rich Learning Spaces University of Warwick

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Planning and Designing Technology-rich Learning
SpacesUniversity of Warwick 17 July 2006

• UK HE Space Management Project
• Impact on space of future changes in HE
• Bernard Dromgoole - Projects Adviser (HEFCE)
• Project Manager to the SMG/SMP

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UK HE Space Management Project

• Current situation.
• Estates and the HE sector
• Increased costs of maintaining the estate
• Space efficient and effective
• Government policy
• Changing academic needs
• Students as customers

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UK HE Space Management ProjectThe terrestrial
space mission..

• Phase One
• A. Model the affordable estate
• B. Cost of space
• C. Review of practice of space management
• Phase Two
• D. Assess other space management methods
• Case studies
• Promoting space efficiency in building design
• Impact on space of future changes in HE
• Good practice in space utilisation
• Space norms

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Impact on space of future changes in HE

• Authors
• Professor Ron Barnett and Dr. Paul Temple
• (Institute of Education at
  University of London)
• Remit
• Assessment, including known trends in
• Demand for courses
• Methods of teaching and learning
• Impact of widening participation
• Possible changes in research activity
• Distance/ self directed/ e_learning

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The BIG challenge.

• How much space will be needed in the future??
• Student numbers and demands
• Capital and revenue costs of space
• Minimising waste whilst optimising effectiveness
• Changing academic needs
• Catering for new administrative needs

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Methodology

• How does this report address the issues?
• Interviews with academic and admin staff at
  selected diverse institutions
• Literature review
• Assessment of potential drivers
• - increase in distance learning
• - staffstudent ratios
• - changes in academic offering
• - workplace based learning

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Space and the universitys role

• Previous 10 years vision
• Increasingly virtual estate embedded in
  workplaces, shopping centres, cultural venues.
• Next decade
• More prominence as knowledge society
  develops.
• Clustering around HEIs

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Factors affecting space demand

• Exogenous
• - Government policies
• - Student demand
• Endogenous
• - Academic change
• - Pedagogic change
• - Managerial change

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Trends in space management

• In the last 10 years m2 per FTE has dropped
• Centralised timetabling more effective
• Centralisation of space
• Extending the teaching day and/or week
• Extension of learning space
• Academic offices
• Administrative space
• Significance of teaching space.

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Research Disciplinary change

• Generally intellectual content and
  technological change has led to little change in
  space need.
• However
• Equipment has diminished in size
• Has become more wide ranging
• More portable
• Computers have replaced printing machines.
• More experiments now IT based.

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Student demand

• .has had a small impact
• Away from science, engineering and langs
• Changing patterns of demand
• E_learning
• Work-place based learning
• Student work/life balance

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Future trends 1

• Reduced space use
• Extended teaching day/year
• Larger student groups
• Space remodelling
• Improved space management
• Workplace-based learning
• Research equipment changes

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Future trends 2

• Increased space use
• Increased post grad demands and numbers
• More admin functions
• Greater and higher facilities standards
• New learning space demands
• New research needs

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Conclusions

• Increasingly diverse. No one set of policy
  prescriptions will apply across the sector
• Unlikely to see significant reductions in space
  need.
• Space will need to be flexible and remodelled
  more often
• Learning space will increase for student led
  and blended learning

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Conclusions (cont)

• Increase in space use to deal with new modes of
  knowledge production.
• Quality of physical facilities becoming more
  important.
• New central and increased administrative
  infrastructure
• Workplace-based and itinerant learning will
  create some space reduction.

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Impact on space of future changes in HE

• N.B. The full report is available at
• http//www.smg.ac.uk/resources.html
• .Thanks for your attention!