ABSTRACT
The principal extant hubs of legitimate new generation learning environment (NGLE) research activity – that is, where scholarly evidence-based research aligning space, pedagogy, technology and learning outcomes – are sited at the Universities of Minnesota and Melbourne. While Educause is largely focused on the use of technology in teaching and learning, this focus has meant that it has also had to address the need for re-engineering learning spaces to reform the teacher-centred model associated with the predominant model of students in rows all facing the front. Research is showing that this form of passive learning is inadequate and universities will ultimately have to ‘bite the bullet’ and encourage their academic staff to take up synchronous blended face-to-face online pedagogical practice. The core idea of the evaluations is to provide irrefutable evidence to teachers that these NGLE do, in fact, produce better student learning outcomes.
