Changing learning spaces in higher education

Abstract

Learning spaces can be physical and virtual and both impact on each other. The physical relates to classrooms, labs, the library, cafés, etc. The virtual relates to e-places, e- resources and e-environments. Both physical and virtual spaces have formal and inform places where students engage, study and learn. Until recently, the virtual environments had limited impact on the physical in universities. But today, with the high student ownership of sophisticated and increasingly mobile smart technologies, the ease of access to excellent free wifi, cloud computing and downloadable applications, the ecology in the university has new opportunities to significantly change. The Forum panel members from Hong Kong institutions will talk about what they see as the ways forward for making the most of the affordances of these changing learning spaces.