Innovative Learning Environments Research

Project Objectives

The project will collect evidence of the link between quality teaching and the effective use of innovative learning environments and then produce a strategy to examine how teachers use them most effectively. It will develop a mechanism for implementing this strategy across as wide a range of educational sites as possible in Australia and New Zealand. It will create evidence to verify this impact and guide future teaching approaches, infrastructure and design of facilities.

The new understanding gained through the project is expected to guide developments in pedagogy, policy and design and to produce strategies to improve learning in schools across Australia and New Zealand.

Marshall Day has gained a lot of critical experience through the design and commission of first generation Building Education Revolution schools, and has a clear understanding of how the spaces can best be utilised from an acoustic standpoint. Amanda Robinson, our education specialist, will provide consulting engineering services with other members of the Marshall Day team as required, to help teaching staff understand and best utilise their teaching environment.