Rethinking Learning & Teaching, The Blended Ways - New Classroom Design for Universitas Pelita Harapan

Martin Luqman Katoppo, Lestari Angraini, Phebe Valencia, Yenty Rahardjo, Andreas Wibisono, Christine L. Sommers

Abstract


In the past two years, the COVID-19 pandemic has abruptly changed many things, consequently in the academic field as well. It questioned on how educational institutions should conduct teaching and learning. Universitas Pelita Harapan (UPH) had been strategizing on these issues since the beginning, starting from developing an academic approach for significant learning called M-Flex, to the design of physical aspects. Blended Learning comes as one the best option that synergize significant learning model and the designed physical space. This paper will discuss on how UPH strategizing in these matters. The methods will combine quantitative research for collecting data and qualitative research for gaining insights from UPH community and translating it into physical design for the new classroom that adapt significant learning and the new normal condition. Thus, this paper will show UPH’s new classroom design as well as the research behind it as answers to the new ways of teaching and learning, in which are the blended ways. 


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