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No holds barred: The WWF meets the ABA...designing tomorrow's academic learning environments
John M. Syvertsen, FAIA, LEED AP
Bradley Lukanic, AIA, LEED AP
Christian Long
Joan Howland, University of Minnesota
Like high-quality faculty who leave distinct impressions on students, the learning environments where today’s law students learn are fundamentally important to student success and retention. With that said, research reflects a vast transformation of educational learning environments over the last two decades. Learning, while still rooted in classrooms, is spilling out to new campus places and spaces – in part due to rapid technological advances and information access “anywhere and anytime,” and in the changing educational learning styles in the current K-12 landscape.
Institutions, as a result, are confronted with including the collaborative learning styles of the millennial generation, which are shaping the academic landscape and encouraging planning of multi-use and multi-faceted learning environments. This social networking, self-promoting, iPad generation acquires knowledge and exchanges information in avenues fundamentality different than previous generations. “To interact, to investigate, to create and to explore” are all fundamentally different activities for today’s students than they were for previous generations.
In response to this, the planning and programming of multimedia educational learning labs and creative collaboration work study spaces for academic exploration and endeavors is critically important. This session will examine today’s academic planning approaches and how the capital projects are attempting to transform campus learning environments. In conjunction with academic planning strategies, this session will also highlight the shift to “learner-led” education from” tutor-led” learning through three formats.