• Prof. Neeraj Gupta
• Prof. Jitendra Singh
• Ar. Akshya Singhvi

Institutional campuses are the most coveted projects – both for the Architecture students design thesis and the practicing Architects. Authors studied the arrangement of thirty instructional spaces spread over seven higher educational institutions in Rajasthan and found that the design of classrooms can only allow lecture method of teaching. In more than 80 per cent of the classes, the acoustics was poor and in many classrooms arrangements of the boards restricted teachers. It is observed that while there is accelerating pace of change in the way students learn, the campus designs especially the classroom designs continue to follow the conventional sage-on-stage approach to teaching. This paper, while discussing the rapidly changing teaching-learning process suggests that there is a need to develop guidelines and standards so that stakeholders can assess designs on qualitative aspects also. The educational campuses need to cater to students who have grown up hanging around in malls, reading in cafes and learning through u-tube, there is a need to rethink the ways we design and develop learning spaces.

Acoustics, Classrooms, Seating Layout, Pedagogy

"Rethinking Design of Learning Spaces in Higher Education Institutions", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 5, page no.63-70, MAY-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRCL06010.pdf

"Rethinking Design of Learning Spaces in Higher Education Institutions", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 5, page no. pp63-70, MAY-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRCL06010.pdf