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Design a Stimulating Learning Environment

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Design a Stimulating Learning EnvironmentCOURSE OVERVIEW: Welcome to the Design a Stimulating Learning Environment course. This program will equip you with the knowledge, environmental design principles, and facilitation strategies required to create learning spaces that maximise participation, support engagement, and enhance knowledge retention. You will explore why a high quality physical learning environment is essential, how environmental conditions influence learner motivation and

COURSE OVERVIEW:

Welcome to the Design a Stimulating Learning Environment course. This program will equip you with the knowledge, environmental design principles, and facilitation strategies required to create learning spaces that maximise participation, support engagement, and enhance knowledge retention. You will explore why a high-quality physical learning environment is essential, how environmental conditions influence learner motivation and cognitive performance, and how facilitators can intentionally shape the space to reinforce learning outcomes. This course also highlights how room layout, sensory elements, and seating configurations directly affect interaction, comfort, and the overall training experience.

This course begins by examining the importance of a good physical learning environment and how the environment impacts learners’ comfort, confidence, attention, and willingness to participate. You will explore what to ask yourself before participants arrive for training, including considerations related to space, equipment, accessibility, and atmosphere. This section introduces the key environmental design considerations and explains how the environment can be used to reinforce learning through visual cues, spatial alignment, and thoughtful arrangement of resources.

The next learning area focuses on the essential factors of an effective learning environment. You will examine the impact of room size and shape, how different dimensions influence visibility and interaction, and the effects of colour on learning—along with the emotions associated with different colours. This section also explores how room walls and floor coverings affect concentration, how windows and doors influence distraction levels, and how room lighting and temperature affect comfort and performance. You will also explore ways to increase your training options by using flexible spaces and movable furniture.

A further section examines sensory and environmental influences on learning. You will explore the impact of room acoustics and sound quality, the influence of music on memory and atmosphere, and the impact of vegetation on learning—including common plants suitable for classroom environments. You will also examine the effects of smells and odours on attention and emotional state, and how multisensory elements can stimulate learning when used carefully and intentionally.

The program then introduces methods to stimulate learning and maximise involvement. You will explore how to arrange facilitator tables and equipment to maintain visibility and flow, and examine reduced learner involvement seating configurations—both with and without tables—including classroom style, V/fishbone/chevron style, perpendicular style, theatre style, semicircular seating, and fishbowl layouts. You will also explore moderate involvement configurations such as U-shaped, double U-shaped, and horseshoe seating, and high involvement configurations—including circular, rounds, hollow square, solid square, open square, rectangular/conference style, crescent layouts, and cluster seating arrangements.

The final learning area focuses on enhancing creativity and engagement. You will explore how to add creative peripherals to training—such as visual boards, learning stations, tactile materials, themed resources, or interactive tools—to enrich the learning experience and increase participant involvement.

By the end of this course you will be able to design physical learning environments that support cognitive performance, use environmental elements strategically to strengthen engagement, select seating layouts that match your training objectives, apply sensory design considerations to improve learner experience, and create classrooms that are dynamic, stimulating, and optimised for effective learning.

LEARNING OUTCOMES:

By the end of this course, you will be able to understand:

  • The importance of a good physical learning environment
  • The impact of the learning environment on learners
  • What to ask yourself before participants arrive for training?
  • The environmental design considerations
  • How to reinforce the learning?
  • The essential factors of an effective learning environment
  • The impact of room size and shape on learning
  • The impact of colour on learning
  • The emotions associated with colour
  • The impact of room walls and floor coverings on learning
  • The impact of room windows and doors on learning
  • The impact of room lighting on learning
  • The impact of room temperature on learning
  • How to increase your training options?
  • The impact of room acoustics and sound on learning
  • The impact of music on learning
  • The impact of vegetation on learning and the common plants to use in the classroom
  • The impact of smells and odours on learning
  • How to stimulate learning?
  • How to maximise involvement and learning?
  • The facilitator table and equipment location
  • The reduced learner involvement configurations (with or without tables)
  • The classroom style seating
  • The “V”, fishbone, or chevron style seating
  • The perpendicular style seating
  • The theatre style seating
  • The semi-circular and the fishbowl style seating
  • The moderate learner involvement configurations (with tables)
  • The U-shaped and double U-shaped style seating
  • The horseshoe style seating
  • The high learner involvement configurations (with or without tables)
  • The circular and rounds style seating
  • The hollow square, solid square and open square style seating
  • The rectangular or conference style seating
  • The crescent and cluster style seating
  • How to add creative peripherals to training?

COURSE DURATION:

The typical duration of this course is approximately 2-3 hours to complete. Your enrolment is Valid for 12 Months. Start anytime and study at your own pace.

ASSESSMENT:

A simple 10-question true or false quiz with Unlimited Submission Attempts.

CERTIFICATION:

Upon course completion, you will receive a customised digital “Certificate of Completion”.

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William L. Pogue
Cuba, US
★★★★★ 5
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Michael Griswold
Pawtucket, US
★★★★★ 4
A Book For Audio
Format: Audiobook
The Art of Storytelling from Parents to Professionals is the first book that I can be confident in saying is better as an audio version than it would be in a paper or Kindle form because you can here the verbal inflections and the storytellers can change character, voice much easier than the printed word might. It also captures the listeners attention as the author herself can connect in a lot more personal and intimate way. My concern is while I can understand what the author is getting at, I am not aspiring to be an oral performance style storyteller and there was not enough of a reach out from the world of oral storytelling to the written story. I mean how many of us are going to get up on stage and tell stories? I guess you can take the skills from one realm and use them elsewhere, but the connection may not be made so easily. This was an audiobook that I had a lot of fun with, even if I didn’t quite get what I was hoping for from it.
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Reviewed in the United States on July 10, 2020
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Louis LaSalle
Bozeman, US
★★★★★ 5
Great Overview of the Art of Storytelling
Format: Audiobook
I chanced on this as an Audible "freebie" to keep on the list for when I was out of credits. Well, it's excellent, and well worth the listen. And excellent survey of the topic spanning topics of performance (preparing, voice, body language, projection), various aspects of framing (culture, age, ethnicity, audience size), story structure and so on This point is for Hannah B. Harvey, if perchance she reads tese reviews. One point of modern storytelling and writing that is not brought out in your lectures, is that some of the best villain/antagonists are actually the heroes/protagonists of their own stories. This is tangentially alluded to in talking about story viewpoints, but not to the extent that it can be an entirely new story, as Wicked and Maleificent turned The Wizard of Oz and Sleeping Beauty on their heads. And even in the 1960's, many a Bond 007 villain was trying to create what they imagined to be a better world. It's useful to consider in storytelling, as far too many people have forgotten/fail to see the fundamental moral ambiguities of life, and I suspect that goes a long way to explaining the extreme partisanship we see in the world today.
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Reviewed in the United States on September 17, 2023
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Doodlebugs
Cuba, US
★★★★★ 3
Sadly, I found the tips and the examples in this lecture to be very simplistic and uninspiring.
Format: Audiobook
I expected a professional storyteller to be able to keep my interest but I found the presentation to be quite boring. I got nothing out of it that I didn’t already know from just being an avid reader. It felt like a high school lecture. Sigh!!
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Emilia Taneva
West Palm Beach, US
★★★★★ 5
Great course on how to improve your storytelling abilities
Format: Audiobook
Storytelling is a great way to get a point across, and most of us digest information through stories. But when it comes time to tell a story, most of us don't have the skills to make the story engaging or impactful. That's where this course on storytelling comes in. You'll get good pointers on vocabulary, body language, tone, along with deeper pointers about how to shape the view of the story and how to refine its characters. It's all very detailed but it's all very interesting and well worth it. This course will help you see how useful storytelling can be in your personal and professional life, especially if you're in a field where you have to do a lot of public speaking.
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Reviewed in the United States on August 21, 2021

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