UF Community:
At our All-Campus Meeting on Friday, January 22, I discussed the Learning Spaces Initiative (LSI) sponsored through my office and the Cabinet. An important goal for this Initiative is to ensure that we receive input from all sectors of the campus community regarding classrooms, labs, and common/public learning spaces. Working with our learning spaces consultants, the CTE and ITS have devised a number of methods for you to participate in this Initiative. Located at this website, you will find:
I hope you will join us in this campus-wide assessment and planning process regarding UF’s Learning Spaces. As Diana G. Oblinger states in her work entitled Learning Spaces*, “Space—whether physical or virtual—can have an impact on learning. It can bring people together; it can encourage exploration, collaboration, and discussion. Or, space can carry an unspoken message of silence and disconnectedness”. Obviously at UF, our objective is to build spaces that motivate the former type of outcome rather than the latter.
Many thanks,
Kathy
University of Findlay President
*http://www.educause.edu/research-and-publications/books/learning-spaces