SCUP
Planning for Higher Education Journal

Do We Need Classrooms Anymore?

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From Volume 44 Number 3 | April–June 2016
By Thomas Fisher
Planning Types: Campus Planning

The forms and layouts of classrooms reflect the societies and economies that students will face when they graduate. As happened in the previous two industrial revolutions, classrooms today need to respond to an emerging “third industrial revolution,” with its demand for innovation and creativity and its provision of information on demand. Active learning classrooms represent a transition to a future in which most learning will no longer happen in what we call a “classroom” today. Instead, students and teachers will be able to move to a variety of spaces, on demand, in order to accommodate different kinds of intelligences and pedagogies.

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