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Eliminating barriers through activity-based learning
Schools need to eliminate barriers such as walls and frontal teaching says Mie Guldbaek Broens, an educational anthropologist and speaker on activi...
Unlocking the potential of learning spaces
Meet a teacher, an architect and a researcher and find out their views on designing modern schools.
How to succeed at activity based working
A combination of individual home bases, many vibrant open spaces, quiet areas for concentration and a number of closed meeting rooms. These are the...
Montserrat Convent school
The Montserrat convent school has departed from the traditional system of silence and listening to explanations and discussions.
How to gain 15 minutes of learning time
An acoustic ceiling can halve the time it takes to get lessons under way according to a study by Sweden’s leading university of technology.
Improved acoustics transformed Signe’s life
Improved acoustics transformed 14 year old hearing-impaired Signe’s life.
Westerpark School in Amsterdam gets to grips with acoustics
The Westerpark School improved the acoustics in three classrooms and the responses have been overwhelmingly positive.
Madrid Architecture school canteen
To step into the university cafeteria in Madrid used to be like hitting a wall of cacaphony. But now, the sound level is halved.