Student views of personalising learning in open-plan up-scaled learning communities

Abstract

I like that you get to be with different kids that have different likes and dislikes. They can help you in certain ways, say they might be creative and have really good ideas. This is one Year 7 student's positive response to learning with peers in flexible openplan settings. Open-plan settings have created a new potential for student input to improve the quality of relationships, effective teaching, and personalised learning by enabling new notions of participant partnership and agency in learning communities. For this potential to be realised, both teachers and students need to imagine new roles and spheres of influence for students in these settings.