Associate Prof Ben Cleveland from the University of Melbourne, Australia shares research from the past decade research conducted by the Learning Environments Applied Research Network

On 6 October 2022, the Office of Education Research (OER) hosted Assoc Prof Ben Cleveland from the University of Melbourne, Australia, where he shared research findings conducted by the Learning Environment Applied Research Network (LEaRN) from the past decade. This was the first in-person seminar that OER has organised post-pandemic. He also explored the pedagogical effectiveness of school spaces, how this research has influenced policies in the Australian state governments and how teachers could use innovative spaces to support learning. You may watch the full seminar here. The public talk was followed by a brainstorming session with colleagues from the Library of the Future (LOFT) study and MOE officers on how to create a self-assessment tool for our schools to improve their school libraries.

The LOFT study’s project website also featured three innovative school libraries which shared about the process of their library redesign and ongoing programmes and improvements.