There's More Than One Way to Learn

Link to February 15 Wisconsin State Journal article, "University of Wisconsin-Madison's innovation room designed to provoke thought, professors say".

The innovation room described here is part of the biomedical engineering department.

Excerpt:

But only recently have universities begun to go out of their way to cater to students’ desires for more varied learning areas, including lounge-like rooms that would cause any mother to cry, "sit up straight!"

Julie Grove, a campus architect, said the spaces are the manifestation of a trend in academia to encourage more interaction among students and small group learning.

"We need spaces to be designed to fill that purpose," Grove said. "The old standard classroom isn’t going to cut it anymore. We’re rethinking how we teach and how students learn."