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Title Collaborative learning environments : the UCD experience
Author(s) Hickey, Peter
PublicationDate 2007-03-05
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Leabharlann UCD
Ionad Eolaíocht Sláinte UCD
UCD Library
Health Sciences Centre
Collaborative Learning Environments
The UCD Library Experience
Presented by Peter Hickey
What we will cover
• Learning Resource Centres, theirdesign features and student focusedethos.
• Student Centred approaches toteaching and learning and to spaceprovision
Learning Resource Centres,Key principles of LRC design
• Accessible and Compact
• Ambience and Environment
• Variety and Choice
• High Quality
• Connectivity
• Adaptable
• Manageable
Connectivity
• Power and data to desks
• Individual lighting
• Full wireless coverage
• Laptop lending service
Manageable
• All collections on middle floor
• Easy to navigate for students
• Clear lines of sight
• Access control
Student Centred Learning
• Shift of power in the Teacher-Studentrelationship
• Active learning
• Choice in learning
What this means
• Increasing range of learning activities
• More collaborative group work
• More individualisation and choice
• More frequent occupancy of library spaces
• Quality and variety of spaces must be good
• Greater use of resources, print, electronic, staff
• New methods of assessment
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