The Translational Design of Universities

An Evidence-Based Approach
Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-90-04-39157-4
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 12, 336 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 563 g

Reihe: Advances in Learning Environments Research

Whilst schools are transforming their physical and virtual environments at a relatively glacial pace in most countries across the globe, universities are under extreme pressure to adapt to the rapid emergence of the virtual campus. Competition for students by online course providers is resulting in a rapidly emerging understanding of what the nature of the traditional campus will look like in the 21st century.

The blended virtual and physical technology enabled, hybrid learning environments now integrate the face-to-face and online virtual experience synchronously and asynchronously. Local branch campuses are emerging in city and town centres and international branch campuses are growing at a rapid rate. There is increasing pressure at various levels, i.e. the city, the urban and the campus, to create formal and informal learning spaces as well as re-purposing the library and social or third-spaces.


Many new hybrid campus developments are not based on any form of rigorous scholarly evidence. The risk is that many of these projects may fail. In taking an evidence-based approach this book seeks to align with the model of translational research from medical practice, using a modified ‘translational design’ approach. The majority of the chapter material comes from the scholarly work of doctoral graduates and their dissertations.

This book is the second in a series on the evidence-based translational design of educational institutions, with the first volume focussing on schools. This volume on Higher Education covers the city to the classroom and those elements in between. It also explores what the future might look like as judgements are made about what works in campus planning and design in our rapidly changing virtual and physical worlds.

Contributors are: Neda Abbasi, Ronald Beckers, Flavia Curvelo Magdaniel, Mollie Dollinger, Robert A. Ellis, Kenn Fisher, Barry J. Fraser, Kobi (Jacov) Haina, Rifca Hashimshony, Leah Irving, Marian Mahat, Saadia Majeed, Jacqueline Pizzuti-Ashby, Leanne Rose-Munro, Mahmoud Reza Saghafi, Panayiotis Skordi, Alejandra Torres-Landa Lopez, and Ji Yu.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Fisher, Kenn

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Schulen, Schulleitung Universitäten, Hochschulen
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Lehrerausbildung, Unterricht & Didaktik Methoden des Lehrens und Lernens
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Lehrerausbildung, Unterricht & Didaktik E-Learning, Bildungstechnologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword: University Campuses as Complex Adaptive Assemblages

Wes Imms

Preface

Notes on Contributors

List of Figures and Tables

Part 1: Emerging Trends in Higher Education and their Impact on the Physical Campus

Introduction to Part 1

Kenn Fisher

1. The Translational Design of Universities: From Campus to Classroom

Kenn Fisher

2. Scoping the Future of the Higher Education Campus

Kenn Fisher

3. Designing the University of the Future

Rifca Hashimshony and Jacov Haina

4. The Relationship between Innovation, Campuses and Cities: Lessons about Synergy from the Development of the MIT in Cambridge

Flavia Curvelo Magdaniel

5. “The Third Teacher” of the XXI Century: Educational Infrastructure, its Problems and Challenges

Alejandra Torres-Landa Lopez

Part 2: The Socio-Cultural Implications in Aligning Virtual and Physical Learning Spaces

Introduction to Part 1

Kenn Fisher

6. Virtual Worlds in Higher Education: Embodied Experiences of Academics

Leah Irving

7. The Assessment of the Psychosocial Learning Environment of University Statistics Classrooms

Panayiotis Skordi and Barry J. Fraser

8. Learning Space Design in Higher Education

Ronald Beckers

9. Implementing Grounded Theory in Research on Blended Learning Environments

Mahmoud Reza Saghafi

10. Modelling Learning Space and Student Learning in Higher Education: An Evidence-Based Exploration

Ji Yu

11. Mind the Gap: Co-Created Learning Spaces in Higher Education

Marian Mahat and Mollie Dollinger

Part 3: Evaluating Learning Space/Place Planning and Design, and the Implications for Future Campus Planning and Design

Introduction to Part 1

Kenn Fisher

12. A Critical Review of Post 2012 Scholarly Literature on the Evidence-Based Design and Evaluation of New Generation Active Learning Environments

Kenn Fisher and Robert A. Ellis

13. Designing for the Future: The Post-Occupancy Evaluation of the Peter Jones Learning Centre

Jacqueline Pizzuti-Ashby

14. Defining Quality in Academic Library Spaces: Criteria to Guide Space Planning and Ongoing Evaluation

Neda Abbasi and Kenn Fisher

15. At-scale Innovative University Learning Spaces of the Future: An Approach to Evidencing and Evaluating What Works?

Leanne Rose-Munro and Saadia Majeed

16. Afterword: 21st C Learner Modalities

Kenn Fisher

Über Autor(innen)

Kenn Fisher, Ph.D. (2003), Flinders University of South Australia, practices 50:50 as a research academic and as an education/health planner linking evidence-based research with practice through the concept of translational design. An Associate Professor at Melbourne University he has been instrumental in winning AU$5million worth of learning environments research projects in the past 10 years.