Edge Hill University, Ormskirk: Learning Resource Centre (LRC) Social Learning Space
| Contact Details: | John Davey, daveyj@edgehill.ac.uk |
| Type of Project: | Refurbishment over a period of 8 weeks: Social Learning Space on the Ground Floor of the Learning Resource Centre (LRC). |
| Start/End Date: | July - August 2006 |
What Are Your Top Tips..
...For a successful new build? For embedding IT? For installing technology?
Flexibility is the key, it allows for students being able to make use of the space in the way that really suits them. The number of them that take their shoes off to sit on the comfy sofas is incredible.
Students don't tend to move the furniture very much as they can find a space which suits them without pulling things together. There are large round tables that can fit 6 or 7 students around comfortably.
The refurbishment was done over the summer when the LRC is quieter and summer programmes don't include initial teacher training programmes so it was acceptable for the educational resource centre to be out of action for a while.
