JISC has published an elegant booklet by Sarah Knight containing guidelines for and examples from institutions - including further education colleges like South East Essex College (picture to the left) and Glasgow Caledonian University (picture to the right) - on the design of learning spaces. Maybe things have changed since I stopped working for a large creaking English further education college, but the big problem we faced then was that to get approval for capital spending we had to conform to rules that simply did not permit such ambitious designs. Instead new buildings had to "pack 'em in tight" in such a way that airy, spacious, and technologically rich designs like those shown in the guide would not have got approval, or so we were told. You can download the booklet as a PDF file, and order it (free) in hard copy from the JISC web site, and there are further resources available from JISCinfonet.
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