Document Type
Blog
Publication Date
3-9-2022
Abstract
Open education offers a way to create a shared set of tools, procedures, and resources to support learners. Open resources work most effectively when they leverage widely accessible, inexpensive, and highly customizable methods that encourage adaptation and ideation across the user community. As more and more educators connect their curricula to considerations of space design, architects and designers need to do more to make learning about the role of space relevant and accessible to everyone. Architecture and design students learn about space and building performance, but it is increasingly relevant to biology and environmental science programs. Generating physical measurements from the environment also yields excellent datasets for discussing the physical properties of materials and how they are used to create both sensors and buildings. The data also presents a chance to practice mathematical statistical analysis. The broad relevance of studying physical, built environments makes such a project a rich anchoring context that can be connected with (and between) many academic disciplines. That means OERs that support space evaluation can unlock authentic project opportunities across any institution or school.