21st Century Learning Spaces Research Group
The integration of technologies, physical and virtual spaces for learning in higher education is a research focus of an interdisciplinary group of academic staff at CDU led by members of the Information Technology discipline
We aim to create and apply new models and technologies at Charles Darwin University for developing and redeveloping formal and informal teaching spaces. We believe that information technology is a ubiquitous tool that needs to be integrated into all future learning spaces in higher education to both enhance and enable students to use the technologies with which they are familiar for communication and entertainment, but are less skilled in the use of technology for learning in an academic context.
We believe it is important that higher education academics staff have spaces which enable technology to be integrated seamlessly into the learning process for students choosing to study on or off campus.
Research Coordinator :Barbara White
Current Research Projects
Retrofitting 21st Century Learning Spaces
Retrofitting University Spaces will develop guidelines, principles, exemplars and evaluation rubrics to guide the sustainable refurbishment of existing tertiary learning spaces to support a range of current and emerging pedagogical practices. The focus of this project is:
- cost effective refurbishment
- centrally timetabled formal teaching spaces and related informal spaces as they relate to structured learning activities
- a range of audiences (discipline focus; academics; students)