How Learning Spaces Can Collaborate with Student Engagement and Enhance Student-Faculty Interaction in Higher Education
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How Learning Spaces Can Collaborate with Student Engagement and Enhance Student-Faculty Interaction in Higher Education Gustavo Severo de Borba 1 & Isa Mara Alves 2 & Paula Dal Bó Campagnolo 2
# Springer Nature B.V. 2019
Abstract
This article explains the relationship between learning spaces and the furtherance of student engagement and enhancement of student-faculty interaction. Following a designdriven methodology and considering flexibility, interaction, and connectivity as core elements to classroom design, we have prototyped spaces and implemented them in 96 classrooms. After doing so, we evaluated how the classrooms were used through a mixedmethods study that involved more than a thousand students. The results of this study highlight the importance of the physical space as a factor that contributes to student engagement and connects both students and professors in an active learning process. Keywords Designing learning spaces . Student engagement . Student-faculty interaction . Strategic design
Gustavo Severo de Borba is an Associate Professor in the School of Design at Unisinos University, Brazil. He earned an M.A. and Ph.D. in Engineering from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul. His research interests are strategic design, student engagement in the classroom and learning environments. Email: [email protected]. Isa Mara da Rosa Alves is an Assistant Professor of Higher Education at Unisinos University, Brazil. She holds an M.S. in Applied Linguistics and a Ph.D. in Linguistics and Portuguese. Her research focuses on the ways educational environments facilitate students’ engagement and learning in higher education. She also conducts studies about natural language processing and semantics. Paula Campagnolo is an Assistant Professor of Higher Education at Unisinos University, Brazil. She Holds an M.S. in Medical Sciences and a Ph.D. in Health Sciences. Her research focuses on the ways educational environments facilitate students’ engagement and learning in higher education. She also conduct studies about the health effects of early childhood nutrition.
* Gustavo Severo de Borba [email protected]
1
Design Graduate Program, Unisinos University, Porto Alegre, Brazil
2
Higher Education, Unisinos University, Port Alegre, Brazil
Innovative Higher Education
The motivation for this study was to seek understanding of how we could create teaching and learning spaces where students build their knowledge through interaction, both inside and outside the classroom. One of the fundamental elements to developing such processes of interaction is to encourage students to be the agents of their own learning and to engage them in the classroom (Chi & Wylie, 2014). By so doing the students allow the teacher to begin encouraging the individual development of each student. Thus, the development process becomes a systemic integration dependent upon the relationships between the parties involved. In this article we report on a study conducted at Unisinos University in Porto Alegre, Brazil. The purpose of this stu
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