Skip to content

good practice and innovation
about us infoKits Tools & Techniques Publications Events
You are here: Home » infoKits » Learning Spaces » Resource Collection » Case Studies » Case Study: Coventry University » Durham University Case Study: Lessons Learned

Planning and Designing Technology Rich Learning Spaces

  Anticipation
  Imagination
  Implementation
  Evaluation
  Resource Collection
inc. case studies, flickr photo library, virtual campus and further resources

Coventry University, Coventry Start Up Café


Contact Details:

Dr Gideon Maas, Co-Director Institute of Applied Entrepreneurship, Institute of Applied Enterprise
Lisa Drummond, Entrepreneurial Culture - Project Manager, Institute of Applied Enterprise

Type of Project:

The Café is the result of a refurbishment and re-purposing of a restaurant on campus. There were plans to remodel an existing restaurant on campus into a modern coffee bar and it was agreed to use this opportunity to convert it into a start-up café.

Start/End Date:

Opened September 2006


What could have been improved? What lessons have been learned?

There are Second Life aspects to the virtual space but this whole area is currently treading water to some extent due to it not taking off as well as anticipated at this point. Although this is not to say that it will not take off in the future.


Bookmark and Share
If you can read this text, it means you are not experiencing the Plone design at its best. Plone makes heavy use of CSS, which means it is accessible to any internet browser, but the design needs a standards-compliant browser to look like we intended it. Just so you know ;)