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- Capacity: 187 students
- Type: Active learning lab
Alignment with principles for designing Teaching and Learning Spaces
Academic challenge
Promote individual, active engagement with content.
Layout
Students can work individually, in pairs or in teams of up to six people, at triangular tables. Each table has ample work surfaces for laboratory work or for classroom materials (e.g., notebooks, laptops, and textbooks).
Learning with peers
Promote active engagement with one another.
Layout
A layout with 8 large triangular tables permits students to move easily from small group to larger group portions of class work: students at each table can work together as a large group of 6, or in smaller groups of 2 or 3. Students are able to easily circulate in the classroom due to sufficient passing space between tables.
Acoustics: Sound zones by table support multiple simultaneous conversations among students.
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Experiences with faculty
Promote interaction and communication.
Layout
Instructor鈥檚 podium is located towards the centre of the room and has plenty of space for all equipment and for the instructor鈥檚 materials. A second small, mobile podium allows the instructor to move around the room with even greater flexibility. The instructor has access to all students due to a layout that permits ample passing space, and clear sightlines. A partial partition permits the preparation听of lab materials for the next course without distracting the students and instructor.
Acoustics:听Sound zones ensure that not only are students able to hear the instructor, but that the instructor is also able to hear the students. Instructor has a wireless and a wired microphone available.
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Contributions to the campus environment
Active learning labs听(flexible spaces that incorporate elements of active and collaborative learning) are part of a vision for campus learning spaces of many different sizes. This learning space can function both as a geology lab and as a classroom, to maximize space use.听Both physical and virtual affordances help maximize High Impact Practices (HIPs) for student learning within and beyond this teaching lab.
