Active Learning Spaces
Modern Spaces for Engaging Learning
Rutgers-New Brunswick has eight general-purpose, active learning spaces. These exciting rooms are designed for student engagement and collaboration and are based on the input of Rutgers faculty. Active Learning Classrooms are ideal for group-based learning. Interactive Lecture Halls provide a venue where opportunities to interact and share work can be included in large lectures. Click on the rooms below for more information.
If you would like to request to teach in an Active Learning Classroom, please inform your department’s scheduling staff so that they can make the request in the CourseAtlas scheduling system. If you would like to reserve an Active Learning Space for non-class use, submit a request through the Office of Academic Scheduling and Instructional Space. You can then request equipment or assistance from us using our Contact Us page.
Active Learning Classrooms
All Active Learning Classrooms have a central instructor hub surrounded by powered student tables of nine. Each student table has access to whiteboard walls, tablet whiteboards, and a group monitor that can display instructor or student content. Rolling seats with bag and water bottle storage enables students to easily partner up and form different groups to engage in collaborative tasks.
Interactive Lecture Halls
Interactive Lecture Halls facilitate active learning in large spaces. These rooms – which all hold at least 100 students – provide a layout conducive to both lecturing and student engagement. Each Interactive Lecture Hall offers seating that lets students work together and share images from personal devices to the room’s screens using Mersive Solstice wireless display sharing.
Additional Spaces
The below rooms do not have the features to qualify as official Active Learning Spaces, but are still conducive to collaboration, team-based learning, and other methods of active learning. These rooms typically have tables and moveable seating that allow students to cluster in groups. These rooms might also have extra writing surfaces for student work. To learn more about each space, click on a campus and room below. The number following each room is its seating capacity.
The below rooms do not have the features to qualify as official Active Learning Spaces, but are still conducive to collaboration, team-based learning, and other methods of active learning. These rooms typically have tables and moveable seating that allow students to cluster in groups. These rooms might also have extra writing surfaces for student work or Solstice Wireless Display Sharing that can be used to collaborate or report out to the rest of the class. To learn more about each space, click on a campus and room below. The number following each room is its seating capacity.
The below rooms do not have the features to qualify as official Active Learning Spaces, but are still conducive to collaboration, team-based learning, and other methods of active learning. These rooms typically have tables and moveable seating that allow students to cluster in groups. These rooms might also have extra writing surfaces for student work or Solstice Wireless Display Sharing that can be used to collaborate or report out to the rest of the class. To learn more about each space, click on a campus and room below. The number following each room is its seating capacity.
The below rooms do not have the features to qualify as official Active Learning Spaces, but are still conducive to collaboration, team-based learning, and other methods of active learning. These rooms typically have tables and moveable seating that allow students to cluster in groups. These rooms might also have extra writing surfaces for student work or Solstice Wireless Display Sharing that can be used to collaborate or report out to the rest of the class. To learn more about each space, click on a campus and room below. The number following each room is its seating capacity.
More than Just Classrooms
In addition to supporting Active Learning Spaces, DCS also helps provide support intended to help faculty use these rooms effectively, including a community of practice centered around active learning.
