Learning That Lets The Sun Shine In
The Sunday Age
Sunday February 18, 2007
THE University of Melbourne will introduce "al fresco" learning spaces and neo-library study space as part of its push into its ambitious "Melbourne Model" approach.
The university traditionally spends about $120 million on capital works but in the coming years expects to spend an additional $30 million to redesign the historic university.The vice-chancellor (academic), Professor Peter McPhee, said the university had hired Australia's leading education space designer, Queensland's Peter Jamieson, to help reinvent some of the classrooms, lecture theatres, laboratories and student spaces. The program would include several al fresco-style learning spaces where students could use wireless computers and work together on projects. Other developments include a redesign of an 80-seat chemistry lecture theatre to create space for students to work together in virtual laboratories.
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