Exploring Informal Learning Space in the University: Its Place in the Digital World

2017 | Education

Growing student numbers, increased student expectations, new approaches to learning, and fast-paced technological advances all contribute to the need for universities to take a more strategic approach to their buildings, including formal and informal learning spaces. Exploring Informal Learning Space in the University addresses the issue of informal learning space from the perspectives of a comprehensive range of stakeholders, including students, academics, facilities managers, university managers, IT managers, architects, interior designers, and librarians. Through a combination of case studies and theoretical discussion, the contributors explore the rationale and theory of informal learning space alongside the practicalities of its planning, development and utilization. The volume is at once ambitious and pragmatic, combining innovative thinking with a firm awareness of practicalities, including the varied constraints faced by universities and the need to work in tandem with broader strategies. Chapter contributions come from a range of experts, practitioners and academics from around the world.

Advocating broad collaboration at both planning and delivery stage, the result is essential reading for anyone involved in learning space provision.

Graham Matthews (Author)

Graham Walton (Author)