Review TdLL 2024
Review TdLL 2024
Learning spaces of the future.
Shaping the campus of tomorrow together!
The central theme of the eighth Day of Teaching and Learning - TdLL for short - was the joint design of the university as a place of learning. At the centre was the question of how physical, hybrid and digital spaces at the university can be designed and created in such a way that they enable innovative formats of teaching and learning. The experience gained during the pandemic was to be used to reassess the link between learning culture and presence and to explore possible further developments.
We explored this together:
- How do spaces affect teaching and learning?
- What kind of learning culture do we want in the future?
- How can the joint (re)design of spaces inspire innovative teaching and 'good' learning?
Learning Spaces Forum, Part 1
The design of sustainable learning spaces has already been successfully tackled in many places at the University of Oldenburg. Innovative learning spaces have already been created in the Institutes of all Schools as well as in central facilities such as the University Library, which promote very different forms of learning through their respective design. Claudia Lehmann and Max-Simon Gündert (University Didactics) have created the 'Learning Spaces Forum' format to make these learning spaces even more visible and showcase their potential. In the 'Learning Spaces Forum', innovative learning spaces and their design to promote learning are presented in short films. The 'Learning Spaces Forum' was opened on the Day of Teaching and Learning and seven short films created in the run-up to the Day of Teaching and Learning were premiered.
Special thanks go to BIS media technology and production for producing the short films and to the learning space designers and students for their participation.
Learning spaces of the future: Post-digital and participative?
Spaces shape how we learn. Spaces also influence what we know, how we communicate and how we live. But how do we design learning spaces today and in the future? In this lecture, Felicitas Macgilchrist reflected firstly on how current physical learning spaces tend to create order, reproduce hierarchies and suggest certain educational opportunities. Secondly, she explored the possibilities and limitations of hybrid learning spaces. Thirdly, she showed how a different, dehierarchised learning space can be developed and what difficulties can arise. She also noted that such spaces already existed in the 19th century.
Innovative teaching with podcasts, open educational resources and more
The joint project SOUVER@N aims to strengthen digitalisation in higher education. In this context, three digital self-learning units were created at the University of Oldenburg to promote the basic competences of student teachers in the subjects of general studies, mathematics and German. Both the selected content and the digital implementation were presented as part of a poster presentation.
Innovative teaching concepts that were developed as part of the participate@UOL project were also on display - including by Prof Dr Anke Spies (School I, Institute of Educational Sciences) and Juliane Heise, Vanessa Barbagiovanni Bugiacca and Jaqueline Menke (School III, Institute of Art and Visual Culture).
Forum Learning Spaces, Part 2
The design of sustainable learning spaces has already been successfully tackled in many places at the University of Oldenburg. Innovative learning spaces have already been created in the Institutes of all Schools as well as in central facilities such as the University Library, which promote very different forms of learning through their respective design. Claudia Lehmann and Max-Simon Gündert (University Didactics) have created the 'Learning Spaces Forum' format to make these learning spaces even more visible and showcase their potential. In the 'Learning Spaces Forum', innovative learning spaces and their design to promote learning are presented in short films. The 'Learning Spaces Forum' was opened on the Day of Teaching and Learning and seven short films created in the run-up to the Day of Teaching and Learning were premiered.
Special thanks go to BIS media technology and production for producing the short films and to the learning space designers and students for their participation.
Learning spaces of the future. Shaping the campus of tomorrow together!
"Let's rethink learning spaces of the future together using the creative method Lego® Serious Play®. Together we can build visions and models, discover new possibilities and actively shape the campus of tomorrow."
The workshop was intended for all members of the university - students, teaching staff and employees. No registration was required for participation.
The results were presented in the last part of the workshop. The Vice President for Studies and Teaching, Prof Dr Andrea Strübind, was present for the presentation and there was the opportunity to talk to her about the visions that had emerged.
Participation in the presentation of the results was also possible without prior participation in the workshop.
On the way to the campus of tomorrow. How do we design learning spaces of the future?
Future-orientated teaching and learning requires sustainable learning spaces. The question of how sustainable learning spaces can be designed is so central because learning processes cannot be initiated and designed independently of the respective spatial environment. Regardless of whether we are in a lecture theatre or a seminar room, in the university library or a virtual learning environment: The respective design of the room has a significant influence on learning. Rooms should therefore be designed in such a way as to promote learning. The design of learning environments is therefore not only an architectural task, but also a didactic one.
How do we design learning spaces of the future? How can physical and virtual learning environments be combined in a targeted manner? Which design elements of 'classic' learning spaces should be retained and which should be modernised or changed? How can learning spaces be designed in a participatory way?
These and other questions were addressed and discussed from different perspectives during the panel discussion. The panellists were:
Concept and organisation
The TdLL 2024 was conceived and organised by Max-Simon Gündert (university didactics, SOUVER@N project), Claudia Lehmann (university didactics, participate@UOL project) and Carolin Puckhaber (student assistant, participate@UOL project).
Co-operations
The poster session and workshop at TdLL 2024 were organised in co-operation with the end of projects participate@UOL and SOUVER@N. We would like to thank the Innovation Campus of the Department for Research and Technology Transfer for moderating the workshop.
