Emerging Evaluation Knowledge in New Generation Learning Environments

Abstract

There is a significant gap in learning environment discourse in connecting graduate attributes to affordances such as space, place, technology and pedagogy. Contemporary journals such as the International Journal of Learning Environments rarely include critical articles on aspects of the physical environment of learning communities (Cleveland & Fisher, 2014). Given the limited nature of emergent scholarly, peer reviewed knowledge related to the spatially oriented aspects of learning environments, any attempt to establish an effective research methodology to evaluate the impact of the physical environment on pedagogy and learning outcomes poses a significant challenge. But what is it that we ..