Library of Evidence

This Library of Evidence begins with incorporating resources now available through our individual sites, with the addition of recent and emerging findings from research and practice focusing on why spaces matter and how we know.

The resources included in the Library reflect the work of a diversity of stakeholders. This includes individual researchers and teams of researchers from the cognitive sciences, pedagogical, disciplinary and professional communities. Findings from the work of academics and architects at individual colleges and universities will also be incorporated into the Library. The Library of Evidence is designed to inform the work of those responsible for ensuring there is a measurable return in the institutional investment made to shape learning environments in which students—today and tomorrow—thrive.

The Library of Evidence presents resources and material from the LSC and from broader communities of practice.

 

Assessment

• Research and Stories from the LSC Community
  • The LSC Guide: Planning for Assessing 21st Century Spaces for 21st Century Learners
  • Assessment: A Strategy for Gathering Evidence of What Works in Shaping Spaces for Learning (from The LSC Guide)
    – Jillian Kinzie, NSSE/Indiana University Center for Postsecondary Research
  • Why Space Matters to Creativity – Wendy Newstetter, Georgia Institute of Technology (rt)
  • Creativity Research Findings at Three Levels of Analysis – Keith Sawyer, Morgan Distinguished Professor of Educational Innovations – The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Education
  • The Impact of Biophilic Learning Spaces on Student Success (YouTube Recording)
• Research and Stories from the Larger Community
  • “Forming and Sustaining a Learning Community and Developing Implicit Collective Goals in an Open Future Learning Space” – Michael M Rook, Saliha Özkan-Bekiroglu, Phil Tietjen, Koun Choi, Scott P McDonald (Journal of Learning Spaces)

 

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

• Research and Stories from the LSC Community
  • LSC Roundtable Collection I: Essays on Designing for Inclusion and Equity
  • Planning and Designing for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (YouTube Recording)
  • “Inclusive Campus Environments: An Untapped Resource for Fostering Learner Success.” – Susan Whitmer
• Research and Stories from the Larger Community
  • The Planning and Design of Diverse, Equitable and Inclusive Campus Environments – Shannon Dowling, Learning Environments Planner, Ayers Saint Gross
  • “Toward Inclusive Learning Spaces: Physiological, Cognitive, and Cultural Inclusion and the Learning Space Rating System.” EDUCAUSE Review. – Richard Holeton, Stanford University

 

Planning and Planners

• Research and Stories from the LSC Community
  • An LSC Essay: How Can The Historic Sense Of An Agora Be Captured In Virtual Learning Spaces? (November 5, 2020)
  • The Foundational Questions for Planners: What Do We Want Our Learners To Be, To Become?
    Responses to those questions by academics and architects involved in the 2016 – 2019 LSC series of Roundtables
  • Structures for Science: A Handbook for Planning Facilities for Undergraduate Natural Science Communities
  • Topophilia: The Importance of Place (YouTube Recording)

• Research and Stories from the Larger Community

 

Tools for Planning

• LSC Roundtables
• Job Descriptions: From the LSC
  • A Conversation with Academics and Architects at Stanford University: A Job Description for a 21st Century Classroom for 21st Century Learners
  • Coalition for Networked Information: Libraries as Spaces for 21st Century Learners & Learning
  • A Conversation With Academics and Architects at WPI: A Job Description of a Space for Project-Based Learning

 

From the LSC

• An LSC Conversation: Reflections on the Geography of Place (January 21, 2021)
• An LSC Report: What Have We Learned That Should Be Carried Forward? (February 2021)

 

 

The Learning Spaces Collaboratory Archive

I. 2020 – 2022

• Virtual Roundtable Discussions
  1. An LSC Essay: How Can the Historic Sense Of An Agora Be Captured In Virtual Learning Spaces? (November 5, 2020)
  2. An LSC Conversation: Reflections on the Geography of Place (January 21, 2021)
  3. An LSC Report: What Have We Learned That Should Be Carried Forward? (February 2021)
  4. spaces that workCollection III: Snapshots of Spaces that Anticipate the Future
  5. Advisory Council and Virtual Roundtable Participants
  6. All LSC Roundtable Discussions: Recording links, Reports, Transcripts, and Notes, May2020 – Oct2021
  7. Reflections from the LSC V/Roundtable Architects
• Open Conversations
  1. The Impact of Biophilic Spaces on Student Success
  2. Planning and Designing for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
  3. What Have We Learned About How and Where Virtual Learning Happens and What’s Next?
  4. How to Recapture the Sense of an Agora as a Space for Learning?
  5. Making It Work: Job Descriptions for Library Spaces
  6. Topophilia: The Importance of Place

 

II. 2014 – 2019

• LSC Roundtables 2016 – 2019
  1. LSC Roundtable at Georgia Institute of Technology
     1. Driving Questions from Architects
  2. LSC Roundtable at Boston University
  3. LSC Roundtable at University of Washington
  4. LSC Roundtable at Loyola Marymount University
  5. LSC Roundtable at University of Illinois at Chicago
  6. Focusing on the Future of Planning Learning Spaces: An LSC Forum
  7. An institutional Roundtable at the California State University, Los Angeles
  8. Focusing on the Future of Planning 21st Century Learning Spaces w/ CAE
  9. North Carolina State University: March 10
  10. University of Missouri: March 17
  11. Oregon State University: March 29, 2017
  12. Indiana University: May 18, 2017
  13. University of Minnesota: June 7, 2017
  14. University of Colorado Boulder: June 22, 2017
• Webinars
• Background on the LSC Roundtables: Focusing on the Future of Planning Learning Spaces
• Reflections from Jeanne L. Narum – November 2015
• LSC Roadmap
  1. LSC Roundtable Collection I: Essays on Designing for Inclusion and Equity
  2. LSC Roadmap Roundtable Collection II: Job Descriptions
  3. LSC Roundtable Collection III: Pedagogical Practices That Work
  4. spaces that work collection I
  5. spaces that work collection II
  6. Reshaping Space to Facilitate Learning: SCALE-UP
  7. Problem Based Learning (PBL)
  8. Active Learning Classrooms
  9. Process Orientated Guided Inquiry Learning (POGIL)
  10. Assessing How Spaces Enable Comfort and Belonging
  11. Experience of the User Learner
  12. Thinking Metaphorically about Spaces for Learning
  13. The Principle of Choice
  14. Thinking About Learning as a Beginning to Find One’s Place in the World
  15. Planning and Designing for Inclusivity
  16. How Do We Disrupt the System?
  17. Why Space Matters to Creativity
  18. Fostering Inclusivity
  19. Design Literacy
  20. A Living/Making Community of Learners
  21. Engaging the Forgotten Stakeholders
  22. Using Space as a Mechanism to Promote Culture Change
  23. Personal Reflections from Four Architects: What Keeps Me Up At Night When Thinking About Planning Learning Spaces
  24. How Can Learning Spaces Bridge the Gap Between Academic and Civic Life?
  25. How Can We Ensure Faculty Buy-in?
  26. Personal Reflection: What Would It Mean If We Began Identifying Existing Institutional Assets in the Early Stage of Planning?
  27. Process—Strategy: What Keeps You up at Night When Thinking About Learning Spaces?
  28. A Strategy for Planners: Creating a Shared Vision of 21st Century Learning Spaces And Places for 21st Century Learners
  29. A Conversation with Academics and Architects at WPI: A Job Description of a Space for Project-based Learning
  30. A Conversation with Academics and Architects at Stanford University: A Job Description for a 21st Century Classroom for 21st Century Learners
  31. Job Description for a Classroom
  32. Questions Academics and Architects Should Be Asking
  33. How Can Space Facilitate the Process of Making Knowledge?
  34. The Yardstick: A New Metaphor for the Process of Planning
• National Colloquium
  1. Take-Away/Take-Home Questions & Strategies
• Other Resources and Presentations
  1. Sandboxing

 

III. 2010 – 2013

• National Colloquiums – 2010 and 2011
• Regional Workshops 2011
• 2 MAA Roundtables
• 2010 – 2013 webinars
• Sloan grant project
  1. Why Space Matters to Creativity
  2. Creativity Research Findings at Three Levels of Analysis
  3. The Spatial Constructs of Creative Situations
• LSC Guide: Planning for Assessing 21^st Century Spaces for 21^st Century Learners, 2013.

 

IV. PKAL 1989-2009

• Structures for Science, 1995
  • Structures for Science: A Handbook for Planning Facilities for Undergraduate Natural Science Communities– Selected Chapters
  • Focusing on the Relationship between Mission and Planning Learning Spaces
  • The Architect’s Perspective on the Client’s Bill of Rights and Obligations
• Imagining Science Communities
• Twenty-first Century Science and the Facilities of the Future, 2003
• From Audits to Quick Fixes: Critical Questions
• From the Archives: Lessons Learned: Building Community – Transforming Institutions, 2002
• What Difference do Improved Facilities Make: Committee of Visitors Report
• Understanding Key Questions, 2005
• The People of Reform, 2005
• Imagining the STEM Facility of the Future, 2003