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Brabant Hogeschool: Learning in the Center and Learning as the Planning Strategy

Presenter(s): Cees Anton de Vries and Susan Stuebing, Twynstra Learning Environments; W.F.H. Doors, Hogeschool Brabant
Convener: Karen Merritt, University of California System

The Board of the Hogeschool Brabant has undertaken development of a $35 million (new construction/renovation) learning environment in the city of Breda, Netherlands. This is the first time that a higher education institution in the Netherlands has used "value added for learning" as the guiding planning principle versus norms or standards. The challenge to "put the learner in the center" in the planning philosophy of both the physical and virtual environments demanded a new approach and also revisited long-term assumptions. (Hogeschool is a professional higher education institution similar to a college but often consisting of several schools of discipline, generally four years to matriculation.)
This knowledge resource from SCUP is a concurrent session presented at the Society's thirty-sixth annual, international conference and Expo, SCUP–36, in Boston, MA (USA), in July of 2001.

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