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This is a picture of our Lab Space (The Keep) in Dickey Hall at the University of Kentucky (notice the play-doh). We have students workspace in this room and a conference table and whatnot. We developed this room from a former computer lab for about a couple thousand (mostly of our own money).
So, I am sitting here (that's my laptop) trying to find the right room for my class of about 20 principal students to meet in this Fall. I don't want a classroom with those 1954 squeeze-your-butt-in-desks and I'm not a huge fan of the industrial square table room either. So, it struck me ... why don't our classrooms look like where I am sitting right now? I want a classroom full of couches! Maybe even a flatscreen on the wall. And plants. Why don't we have plants in our higher education classrooms? And, yeah, play-doh.
I'm serious. Why don't our higher education classrooms look like this?