SCUP Topical Resource Pages

Learning Space Design Resources

Learning spaces, whether formal or informal, virtual or physical, are places where the core mission of higher education institutions intersects with the diversity of professional interests and responsibilities on campus. Students learn in them, faculty work in them, and just about everyone else—from designers to builders to physical plant staff to information technology staff to budget officials to enrollment managers to space planners—have interests that intersect in these important spaces.

One way to stay current with new knowledge in this topical realm is to join SCUP's learning space design knowledge community (information below) and/or subscribe to our weekly email newsletter, "SCUP Email News". Anyone can join the knowledge community (email list) for free, and we have a special non-member edition of SCUP Email News that is also complimentary.

Resources for Purchase

The following can be purchased from SCUP's online store:

In Sync: Environmental Behavior Research and the Design of Learning Spaces— In Sync, by Lennie Scott-Webber, is currently the best-selling book in SCUP's higher education planning library, with many campus leaders ordering multiple copies for sharing in various committees and planning groups. Scott-Webber took what used to "sit on shelves in the ivory halls of academe" and has applied it to the physical design of interior learning spaces. Her work is shared in this elegant book with clear and over-sized diagrams and charts. Get your copy now!

"Overall I'd say this book is right on target. It has just enough theory to provide context to the multiple graphic examples of various learning environments. I plan to use this book with my academic deans as we forecast future instructional space needs."

Purchase the December 9, 2004 webcast on CD!

The following can be purchased from KRM via telephone at 800.775.7654 or send your query to custserv@krm.com:

Creating Environments for Learning and Exchange not just Delivery—Applying Research to Design [CD of a December 9, 2004 webcast]—you can read more about that webcast, featuring Lennie Scott-Webber..

If you missed the webcast, a CD with the complete webcast—audio and visual—is available for purchase. Find out more.

With questions about these resources, contact profdev@scup.org.

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Complimentary Related Resources

Learning Space Factors Report, 2008 (PDF)

Learn the results of a major survey on the key factors driving learning spaces. What do students think is the most valuable consideration in physical learning spaces, and if learning can happen anywhere-what would the most valuable aspect of campus learning spaces be? The survey takes a qualitative approach to give insight into these and other questions to inform your planning initiatives.
[This was a concurrent session at SCUP–43 Presented by: Jeff Vredevoogd, Manager/Education Solutions Channel, Herman Miller]

Join nearly 500 others in SCUP's Classroom (Learning Space) Design Knowledge Community, an email discussion list where we share interesting and pertinent news items from time to time. It's open to all: send a message to "smartc-request@umich.edu" with the word "subscribe" in the subject line of your message. Leave the body blank.

We are sharing with you a PDF document of Chapter Two of In Sync, taken right from the full book.

In addition, you can listen right now to this 40-minute streaming audio interview of Lennie Scott-Webber and Susan Painter being interviewed by SCUP author, Phil Waite, about the application of academic and scientific research to the everyday work of planning and design.

For some lighter reading on the topic, here are a couple of columns from Campus Technology's IT Trends Newsletter written by SCUP staffer Terry Calhoun: