Abstracts
The Flexible Campus – Joining up People, Pedagogy, Place and Process
Tuesday 5 May 2009, 1530 - 1600
Presenter: Margaret Weaver
University of Cumbria, UNITED KINGDOM
Presenter Biography
Margaret Weaver, is Head of Learning and Information Services at the University of Cumbria. She is responsible for Library, IT User Support, Media and Learning Technology Services. She is editor of Transformative Learning Support Services in higher education published by Facet in November 2008.
Abstract
There is a pressing need for institutions to join up their Estates Strategy, ICT Strategy and Learning and Teaching Strategy to cope with unprecedented change in education practice and to be sustainable, future focussed and student centred. Based on a major development of a new university formed in August 2007 in the United Kingdom – the University of Cumbria - this paper articulates the alignment of learning spaces with infrastructure. It begins to chart how one institution is attempting to plan its Estate Strategy, at a critical stage in its development – the first year of the new University. The key strategies that might deliver optimum space utilisation considering learning principles, planned future growth, resources and institutional mission are uncovered. Consequently an emerging model of a distributed university including the establishment of what is meant by a flexible, sustainable campus in the 21st century is analysed and expressed.
