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Bronfman 410

  • Location:
  • Capacity: 55听students
  • Type: Tiered classroom

Alignment with principles for designing Teaching and Learning Spaces

Academic challenge

Promote individual, active engagement with content.

Layout

Substantial work surfaces for notebooks, laptops, and textbooks.

Acoustics: Acoustic design to avoid distraction from outside and inside sources.

Furniture

Comfortable, adjustable-height chairs on wheels permit students to work individually or in groups.

Technologies

Access to resources: Tabletop plugs for student laptops, LMS, internet (via student laptops). Multiple sources and screens for simultaneous display of different learning materials.

Lighting & colour

Appropriate lighting for individual work.

Photograph of a classroom in Bronfman 410 building
BRONF 410 after renovations.

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Learning with peers

Promote active engagement with one another.

Layout

Students can move about classroom with ease due to centre and side aisles. Unobstructed sightlines.

Acoustics: Sound zones support multiple simultaneous conversations among students.

Furniture

Chairs on wheels permit students to turn and discuss with those nearby, supporting a variety of collaborative learning approaches.

Technologies

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Lighting & colour

Different lighting patterns and levels support different learning activities.

View facing the front of classroom.

Experiences with faculty

Promote interaction and communication.

Layout

Instructor is not limited to the 鈥渇ront of the room鈥� and instead has access to all students due to unobstructed sightlines, side aisles and an only slightly sloped floor.

Acoustics: Sound zones ensure that not only are students able to hear the instructor, but that the instructor is also able to hear the students. Wireless audio amplification available for instructors.

Furniture

The podium does not interfere with sightlines or movement, and has a large surface for instructional materials. Chairs on wheels support different teaching strategies.

Technologies

Dual-source projection, multiple classroom technology sources (document camera, data projector, computer, Sympodium, Blu-Ray/DVD player, etc.) and multiple screens permit display of different learning materials.

Lighting & colour

Lighting patterns support multiple types of teaching tasks.

BRONF 410 before renovations.

Contributions to the campus environment

Classrooms that incorporate elements of active and collaborative learning are part of a vision for a variety of flexible campus learning spaces. This classroom is designed for all populations using the space: well-lit, with a standardized room control panel that simplifies instructors鈥� use of equipment in classrooms across campus. IT is consistent with teaching and learning needs, and durable furniture contributes to sustainability efforts.听Both physical and virtual affordances help maximize High Impact Practices (HIPs) for student learning within and beyond this classroom.

麻豆AV is on land which has served and continues to serve as a site of meeting and exchange amongst Indigenous peoples, including the Haudenosaunee and Anishinabeg nations. Teaching and Learning Services acknowledges and thanks the diverse Indigenous peoples whose footsteps mark this territory on which peoples of the world now gather. This land acknowledgement is shared as a starting point to provide context for further learning and action.

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