Ideal classroom design

Earlier this year a number of us were asked at Luther to make some suggestions about ways to update our classrooms. Contrary to expectations, we weren’t so much interested in new technologies as we were in natural lighting, flexible arrangements, and so on. I just stumbled across a nice piece that Edward Nuhfer put up on the web on “aspects of an ideal classroom” that I wish I’d known about earlier! Still, he points to a fair amount of research that actually supports some of our intuitive observations, but then challenges others. All in all, a really useful essay. (Note: his article’s link to the “33 principles of educational design” is broken, but I found the correct one to list here.)