Inspiredclassrooms - home. Open learning spaces: I wish I worked there! | Design Thinking and Creativity in Education. Learning Environments for the 21st Century. "Learning environments for the 21st century", chapter 2 in a new book on educational facilities released by the OECD gives you a few glimpses into the historical evolution of the classroom and looks at what education will need by way of learning space in the 21st century. Although it's about physical space, author Christian Kühn makes some points that can help digital learning designers answer questions like: how do you design the ideal learning environment, when we don't really know what that is yet? The 3 most important things to learn in the 21st century...
Kühn suggests that the 21st century calls for a different kind of education to the factory-based rows of repetition schooling popularized by industrialization. Education should prepare students for success in a much changed heterogenous, globalized society facing unprecedented economic and ecological crises. Designing the ideal learning environment -- when you don't know what that is...