The Impact of New Collaborative Learning Spaces on Tertiary Teacher Practice

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2019
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Haines, K
Maurice-Takerei, L
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University of North Carolina, Greensboro
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Institutions may invest heavily into building and equipping new learning teaching spaces with the intention of encouraging active and collaborative learning to occur. However, there may not be a concomitant shift in teachers’ existing pedagogical practices. This qualitative study examined the perspectives of thirty-two tertiary teachers across a range of disciplines at a single institution. The findings suggest that working in new collaborative learning spaces challenged many participants to make changes to their existing practices that moved them along a possible continuum to be more facilitative and learner-centered in their approach.

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Journal of Learning Spaces, 8(2). Retrieved from http://libjournal.uncg.edu/jls/article/view/1783
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