Monday, February 12, 2007
What are the major influences on a students (school) education, and how does space affect these influences?
-Is there a balance between physical and virtual learning spaces?
-What environmental factors can motivate students to learn?
-What factors distract students from learning?
1.)The importance of physical space in creating supportive learning environments
-This book explores how spaces can be designed to effectively embrace both physical and
virtual learning spaces, and the implications of learning at the intersection of these two
worlds.
2.)Space, objects, minds, and brains
-Spatial based attention and reference frames are addressed here as well as how space
can be utilized to effectively direct the attention of students.
3.)Designing places for learning
-Using cultural information to create schools that work is the goal of this book. It examines
the relationship between school achievement and building conditions. All types of students,
including the disabled, are taken into account when designing learning spaces in this book.
4.)Advances in web-based education : personalized learning environments
-Covers the array of factors that play a part in actually designing personalized learning
spaces.
5.)Learning & behavior
-Psychology journal that may provide insight into the factors involved in learning on a
physiological and perceptual level.
6.)Academic ability, motivation and feedback : a predictor of learning performance
-Examines the personal aspects of learning.
7.)Environment and behavior
-Studies how personality traits can manifast as well as directly effect how a student learns.
Using this knowledge schools can be designed with a greater body of knowledge about its
pupils in mind.
-Is there a balance between physical and virtual learning spaces?
-What environmental factors can motivate students to learn?
-What factors distract students from learning?
1.)The importance of physical space in creating supportive learning environments
-This book explores how spaces can be designed to effectively embrace both physical and
virtual learning spaces, and the implications of learning at the intersection of these two
worlds.
2.)Space, objects, minds, and brains
-Spatial based attention and reference frames are addressed here as well as how space
can be utilized to effectively direct the attention of students.
3.)Designing places for learning
-Using cultural information to create schools that work is the goal of this book. It examines
the relationship between school achievement and building conditions. All types of students,
including the disabled, are taken into account when designing learning spaces in this book.
4.)Advances in web-based education : personalized learning environments
-Covers the array of factors that play a part in actually designing personalized learning
spaces.
5.)Learning & behavior
-Psychology journal that may provide insight into the factors involved in learning on a
physiological and perceptual level.
6.)Academic ability, motivation and feedback : a predictor of learning performance
-Examines the personal aspects of learning.
7.)Environment and behavior
-Studies how personality traits can manifast as well as directly effect how a student learns.
Using this knowledge schools can be designed with a greater body of knowledge about its
pupils in mind.