2024 Volume 46 Issue 1 Pages 38-42
This paper describes the summary and prospects of sub-theme 2, “Construction of a Learning Environment Design Model in the New Normal Era,” of the research project “The Potential of University Education Brought about by the Corona Disaster; Object, Method, and Content”. Research activities were conducted through three processes: (1) “Identification of current conditions and analysis of needs,” (2) “Development of evaluation indices and evaluation of practices,” and (3) “Development of design books and conducting workshops.”
Requirements for the planning and implementation of learning environments were extracted based on a literature review, questionnaire survey, and interviews conducted with several universities regarding the status of their learning environment development.
Based on the requirements, we extended the Learning Space Rating System (LSRS). An evaluation index for formal learning spaces was extended to informal spaces, and an extended LSRS was developed. To summarize sub-theme 2, a “Learning Environment Design Book” was compiled as an outcome to be utilized by the faculty and student staff involved in the creation, implementation, and improvement of learning environments. With the publication of the design book and the planning of workshops utilizing it, we intend to make the results available to both members and non-members of the Japan Association for College and University Education in Japan and abroad and to contribute to the Japan Association for College and University Educationʼs research activities.
Additionally, the focus of this subtheme was to examine the design of learning environments from the micro- to mid-level. In the future, it will be necessary to examine the learning environment in the new normal from a macro-level perspective.
