With Dr Paul Feldman, chief executive, Jisc, Professor David Maguire, chair, Jisc, Professor Andrew Harrison, professor of practice at University of Wales Trinity St David and director, Spaces That Work Ltd, Professor Donna Lanclos, associate professor for anthropological research, UNC Charlotte
5. »Sectors-owned organisation
for shared digital
infrastructure, services,
content and expertise
»Established 1993 to provide:
national vision and leadership
on networking and specialist
information services
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6. Jisc in numbers
»Work with 969
education organisations
»National network
infrastructure £18m users
»50% of all UK library spend
on e-resources
»Over 400 digital
content agreements
»Sectors save £203m annually
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7. Of thesector,forthesector:we dothreemain things foryou
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Shared digital
infrastructure
and services
Current
examples:
Janet network,
shareddatacentre,
eduroam wireless,
geospatial services
Future
examples:
Learner analytics,
research data
management,
FE college
in a box
Sector wide deals
with IT vendors and
commercial
publishers
Current
examples:
Microsoft 365
email, Amazon
web services,
e-journals,
FE e-books
Future
examples:
Prevent web
filtering,Tableau,
new models for
digital publishing
Expert and
trusted advice
and practical
assistance
Current
examples:
Open Access,
Financial x-ray,
cloud advice,
cyber security
Future
examples:
FE area reviews,
national monograph
strategy
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9. University digital challenges
»Digital ‘WildWest’
› BYOD,Wikipedia scholars, limited IP respect
»Students moving faster than university policies/ systems/
practices/ staff
»Keeping up with demand – building industrial strength solutions
› MOOCs,VLE, student records system, learning analytics, lecture
capture, research data management
»Breadth v depth – digital champions v digital literacy
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10. Information systems
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Data
Student
recruitment
(CRM)
Email
Student
records
Attendance
monitoring
Alumni
and
development
Business
intelligence
Building
access
control
Virtual
learning
environment
Learning
analytics
11. Major Jisc projects
»Janet mid-term upgrade
»Learning analytics
»Technology and content agreements
»Open access
»FE area reviews
»Research data management
»Technology-enhanced learning
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14. Creating great digital
spaces for learning
Andrew Harrison
Professor of Practice
University of Wales Trinity Saint David
Director, Spaces That Work Ltd
Aalto University High Voltage Laboratory, Helsinki
15. The rules are changing…
• The internet has changed notions of place, time
and space
• Emerging new methods of teaching and
learning based on an improved understanding
of cognition
• Effect of demographic changes on learning
population
• Changing financial context for education:
increased competition, pressure on resources
• Impact of changes in government policy:
funding, participation, research strategy
• Blending of living, learning, working and leisure
• Life-long learning
16. “Thirty years from now the big
university campuses will be
relics. Universities won’t
survive.….”
“…the cost of higher
education has risen as fast as
the cost of healthcare…. the
system is rapidly becoming
untenable. Higher education
is in deep crisis.”
Peter Drucker,
Forbes magazine,
July 1997
17. Circulation as
event space
More freely
available space
group project
work, solo work
Redefining
‘balance’ space
circulation
as glue
Source: DEGW
New space models for universities
• Traditional categories of space are
becoming less meaningful as space
becomes less specialized, boundaries
blur, and operating hours extend toward
24–7
• Space types designed primarily around
patterns of human interaction rather
than specific needs of particular
departments, disciplines or technologies
• New space models focus on enhancing
quality of life as much as on supporting
the learning experience
18. SPECIALIZED
LEARNING SPACES
Tailored to specific functions or teaching
modalities
Limited setting types:
Formal teaching, generally enclosed
Access:
Embedded, departmental
GENERIC
LEARNING SPACES
Range of classroom types
Range of setting types:
Formal teaching, open and enclosed
Access:
In general circulation zones,
access by schedule
INFORMAL
LEARNING SPACES
Broad definition of learning space
Wide range of setting types:
Informal and formal, social, open and
enclosed
Access:
Public, visible, distributed, inclusive
Tend to be:
• Owned within departments, subject
specific
• Involve specialized equipment
• Require higher levels of
performance specification
• Often higher security concerns
Tend to be:
• Generic teaching settings
• Often limited in flexibility
by furnishings
• Used when scheduled
Tend to:
• Encompass richer range of
settings
• Allow choice
• Be loose fit, unscheduled
• Work as a network of spaces
rather than singular settings
• Have food!
Creating an effective learning landscape
Source: DEGW
19. dSchool, Stanford University, USA
Space to support learning & teaching
• Collaborative, active learning with
hands-on experiences
• Integrated, multidisciplinary
• Distributed, learning takes place
anywhere/ anytime, mobile technology
with social activity
• Immersive with simulated or real-
world experiences
• Blended activities, online with face-to-
face, mixed reality
20. Creating spaces to support the pedagogy
• Thinking spaces
- spaces for conceiving ideas,
deliberating, brainstorming
• Designing spaces
- spaces for putting structure, order,
and context to free-ranging ideas
• Collaborating spaces
- spaces for enabling team activities
• Presenting spaces
- spaces for showing things to a group
• Debating or negotiating spaces
- spaces for facilitating negotiations
• Documenting spaces
- spaces for describing and informing
specific activities, objects, or other actions
• Making spaces
- spaces for creating objects and artefacts
using diverse materials and processes
• Practicing spaces
- spaces for pervasively monitoring a
location
• Operating spaces
- spaces for controlling systems, tools, and
complex environments
21. Shift from physical to hybrid environments
• Physical environments are
increasingly equipped by, and
formed through, new technological
features supporting mobile ways of
working
• Physical environments find their
extension in the non-physical
environments of the digital world
• In combination, the physical and the
non-physical work environments lead
to new hybrid learning and work
spaces and environments
22. “We will gravitate to settings that offer particular cultural, scenic and climatic attractions… Sometimes we will
network to avoid going places. But sometimes, we will go places to network”
VIRTUAL SPACE
convenient
efficient
PHYSICAL SPACE
meaningful
symbolic…one type
of space
does not
replace
the other
Bill Mitchell, e-topia
Virtual & physical space are complementary
WHAT EVER THE INTERFACE WE ARE ALWAYS PHYSICALLY LOCATED SOMEWHERE
23. InQbate, University of Sussex, UK
Active Learning Classroom,
University of Minnesota, USA
Spaces to support blended learning
• Flat floor learning spaces with ability to reconfigure
furniture easily to support multiple pedagogies
• Increased space per student to allow easy
reconfiguration & group working
• Increased use of technology
• Improved quality of environment:
• A rich visual environment,
• High quality, flexible furniture
• Access to natural light
• Connection to the outside
• Spatial innovation combined with timetable and
technology innovation and faculty skills development
28. Informal learning spaces
UWTSD Virtual Learning Environment
UWTSD Library Management Systems
Learning Commons
‘On-campus’ ‘Off-campus’
Physical/
Digital
Resources
Expertise
Study
Settings
UWTSD LIBRARIES
UWTSD Library ‘offer’
29. “The library of the future is a little bit like an
airport for books or a convention centre for the
meeting of minds ….so a place like an old
fashioned Italian piazza where one can sit and
sip your coffee and stroll leisurely or act as a
marketplace, exchanging and trading information
and knowledge.
This is happening at the same time in a physical
space as well as in a virtual space and the
interface between the physical and the virtual
space is going to be crucial for our envisioning of
the library of the future.”
Massimo Riva, 2012, Professor of Italian Studies
Director of the Virtual Humanities Lab at Brown University
31. The future learning experience
• Layered experience
• Creation of flexible activity zones to support
learning, living and working
• Users choosing appropriate settings and
technology for the tasks they want to achieve
• Space and experience changing over the course of
the day: changing to reflect different types of users
at different times of the day
• Blending of physical and virtual learning and
research spaces
• Blurring of learning with working, living and leisure
• Creation of learning-centred communities
32. Successful digital learning spaces
Space Efficient, appropriate size, technology infrastructure
+
Place Well-designed, meaningful space
+
Process Learning and teaching approach including technology use
+
Experience Total student experience before, during and after the learning event