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Teaching and Learning Spaces Outreach

Teaching and learning spaces on campus affect everyone. How these spaces are designed, used, and taken care of matters to students, faculty, and staff at TMU. The Teaching & Learning Spaces Working Group, the Centre for Excellence in Learning & Teaching, and Facilities Management & Development work with our TMU community through various outreach programs to ensure that the physical spaces on campus support the university's teaching and learning mission and meet the needs of all users:

  • Classroom Surveys
  • Community Consultations
  • Classroom Audit
  • Furniture Audit

 

Classroom Environment Survey (Ongoing)

Our classroom environment survey aims to collect information from faculty, students, and staff on the learning and teaching environment at Toronto Metropolitan University, and how classroom spaces meet the expectations of their users.

 (google doc) 

Community Consultations on Design Standards for Indigenous Learning Spaces (Ongoing)

 (external link) 

Consultations are ongoing with Toronto Metropolitan University’s Indigenous faculty, instructors, staff, undergraduate students, and graduate students about what features make learning spaces more supportive of Indigenous learners and Indigenous ways of knowing. This document is intended to support the integration of Indigenous cultural thinking into the design of learning spaces.

Community Consultations (2018-2020)

Our comprehensive consultation process included a set of town halls targeted at faculty, instructors, students, and staff, as well as an online survey that was sent out to the entire Toronto Metropolitan University community. 

Classroom Audit (2018-2020)

The Teaching and Learning Spaces Working Group commissioned an audit of 165 general use classrooms on the Toronto Metropolitan University campus. The resulting report represents data collected during Winter 2020 reading week.

Environmental Scan (2021)

Members of the Centre for Excellence in Learning & Teaching and Facilities Management & Development conducted a series of site visits and meetings with Canadian universities and colleges who have undergone classroom redesign projects