2021 KTH SoTL keynote on Learning Spaces

Editor's Notes

• #3: Learning space or learning setting refers to a physical setting for a learning environment, a place in which teaching and learning occur.[1] The term is commonly used as a more definitive alternative to "classroom,"[2] but it may also refer to an indoor or outdoor location, either actual or virtual. Learning spaces are highly diverse in use, learning styles, configuration, location, and educational institution. They support a variety of pedagogies, including quiet study, passive or active learning, kinesthetic or physical learning, vocational learning, experiential learning, embodied learning and others.
• #4: During the annual meeting of the economic forum the urgency of creating learning spaces to reskill people was emphasized by stating that As jobs are transformed by the technologies of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, we need to reskill more than 1 billion people by 2030. In the next two years – by 2022 – 42% of core skills required to perform existing jobs are expected to change. In addition to high-tech skills, specialized interpersonal skills will be in high demand, including skills related to sales, human resources, care and education. The world is facing a reskilling emergency, this means the world is facing a Learning Emergency. More than 1 billion jobs, almost one-third of all jobs worldwide, are likely to be transformed by technology in the next decade, according to OECD estimates. By just 2022, the World Economic Forum estimates 133 million new jobs in major economies will be created to meet the demands of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. we must also focus on achieving equitable, inclusive progress to equip and enable the world’s people to thrive in the jobs of the future.
• #6: learners and no longer students? (open up learning spaces for all ages: smaller modules, micro credits...let alumni join or share content)
• #7: Socratic debate, lectures or mentoring
• #8: Socratic debate revisited: pain the in the ass, but inspiring reflection. Socrates vs fish bowl. Socratic corridor.
• #9: lecture <=> zoom room: industrial revolution, now for information transfer WITH engagement, and international learners.  Sten Velander (multiple camera’s, collaborative annotations, ...)
• #10: : apprenticeship vs Internship (link to corporate learning)
• #12: Revenue comes from students, learning Where as quality of university is assessed via publications in journals, But with urgency in mind, we need to reinstate professors as crucial to solve learning need. Award and renumerate excellent teaching Learning for society (open courses) Embed 21st century skills in teachers Integrate student as support
• #13: experts from corporate/ngo world in zoom room, what does this mean for our spaces? 
• #14: Virtual labs: 360° camera's to allow learners to learn on site through virtual means. Bringing the outside inside or ... site visits of course. Simulations, augmented realities
• #15: Expanding from university to the real world
• #16: Maker spaces (d stanford), allowing learners to prototype. ...
• #21: From elementary school, other learning spaces are promoted. Students learn in different learning spaces from early on. But teachers don’t. This means the students come in with different expectations, and they judge the teachers by their standards as teachers judge their students by their own standards. Make learning techniques transparent. Why this type of learning now. Signpost learning in each learning space, as the learning space supports specific learning. Communication brings teachers and learners closer together, making their expectations and options known.