ABSTRACT
This chapter reviews three laboratory layouts that highlight alternative configurations that support instructors in addressing these commonly-occurring questions: workstations arranged in rows, with students facing forward; an open concept, in which aisles are perpendicular to the front of the room; and a mixed layout, with a traditional classroom arrangement in the center and workstations around the outside. Disabling monitors during class discussion can keep students focused, but also prevents online note taking. An open lab layout allows another row of whiteboards along the left side of the teaching lab. All configurations can encourage collaboration and pair programming, if one workstation is placed on each table, whereas two workstations per table encourages tasks by individuals rather than pairs.
