Cases on Higher Education Spaces : Innovation , Collaboration and Technologies

Space is a natural constituent of our lives, whether we sit still, move, act in any way, work, or learn. Space is just a " given " in our everyday environment what makes it so hard to " see " familiar spaces with all their affordances and restrictions. This is also obvious for activities of teaching and learning, traditionally organized in spaces like classrooms, labs, and libraries for hundreds of years. Due to a rethinking process going on for at least a decade these classical formats are about to be broken up. Mobile communication , networking, and new Web-based systems enable quite different experiences with space not constrained by bricks and walls anymore. Thus Higher Education-as much as professional or school education-is challenged to provide new answers to the classical questions: What are the right learning spaces for the generation of networked learners? How can we rebuild spaces to be appropriate for students, faculty and other stakeholders in face of new digital technologies? The complexity of the design task does not allow for a theoretical formula answering the challenge. Cases on Higher Education Spaces – Innovation, Collaboration, and Technologies instead provides 19 case studies with real and up-to-date examples.