- Why Space Matters to Creativity
…What should happen here? We scan the environment, which in its design/structure/furniture helps us produce inferences that allow us to come to provisional answers to these questions. Bringing this concept…
- Learning Spaces Roadmap
…connectedness of moving into the future. The construction of the LSC Roadmap is based on an analysis of questions and conversations that surfaced in the LSC Roundtables that began in…
- Design Literacy
We were interested in exploring the notion of “making” outside the traditional disciplinary realms for makerspaces. Then we began asking ourselves if—in fact—making is becoming a new way of being,…
- Assessing How Spaces Enable Comfort and Belonging
We began by exploring questions of diversity, sparked by a question from a person on our team about how to meet the needs of the individual learner in a time…
- Fostering Inclusivity
…a particular community of learners? Can makerspaces feel inherently exclusive for students who are not in a particular disciplinary field or who do not look like everyone now using the…
- Lessons Learned: Building Community β Transforming Institutions
…winter 2019. It speaks about the power of questions, the nature and complexity of change; it informs all stages of the process of setting and realizing goals for institutional transformation….
- What Have We Learned About How and Where Virtual Learning Happens and Whatβs Next?
…Vantage Technology Consulting Notes from Open Conversation Zoom Chat II. Resources A. From the LSC Archives B. From the Field III. Evidence: Findings from Research and the Field https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HUKqs0ddbA…
- First Steps in the Process of Planning
…this beginning, the group moves into the conceptualization phase, developing research questions, hypotheses, a conceptual framework, and a research design. Team processes that enhance effectiveness at this stage include developing…
- The Next 10 Years: Helping STEM Students Thrive
…examples of effective evidence-based STEM teaching practices commonly adopted at research universities? What are some of the unique institutional and cultural challenges to achieving STEM diversity? What does difference at…
- Enhancing the Effectiveness of Team Science
…and mental models. In the final stage—translation—the primary goal is to apply research findings along the research continuum to address real-world problems, developing shared understandings of team goals among old…
