One of the new facilities being developed at Bedford Campus is a teaching laboratory. This classroom will integrate the latest in pedagogic technologies but also function as a typically classroom on the university's timetable. As well as letting being a sandpit for experimental teaching methods, it will also provide opportunities for new forms of research into teaching. With mirrors and cameras, student and staff researchers can use ethnographic and other techniques to observe learning behaviours of all kinds.
The lab-classroom will open during 2014-15 and the project was led by
Dr Andrea Raiker.
This is a very exciting development for the university. However, it is common for people to feel inhibited about using these spaces. Even Brown University has a problem getting people to feel comfortable enough to get through the door as this
podcast, from the excellent EDUCAUSE series,
outlines. Digital scholarship is a growing into a substantial research field.
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