The Learning Space Gallery is a curation of MiEN spaces that inspire innovative future-ready learning spaces.

Welcome to the Active Learning Space! This site is designed to provide an introduction to Active Learning, which is an educational approach developed by Dr. Lilli Nielsen. This is a collaborative project of Penrickton Center for Blind Children, Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired, and Perkins School for the Blind. It is intended

An Esports Lab Learning Space that provides gamers comfort and flexibility along with multiple learning opportunities in esports programs.

We need to rethink how we design our environments for students. The resources here will help you to use learning space design to transform your space.

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Reaching Reaching Things on the BodyThe ability to reach for objects is important and something that may not happen without support for a child with limited vision or blindness or a child with physical challenges involving hands and arms. There are many activities to help a child develop the ability to coordinate the use of

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Implementation Active Learning is more than equipment or materials. It is an approach that can be used to implement instruction in general curriculum and expanded core curriculum, and also to support therapies such as physical therapy, occupational therapy, music therapy, and speech therapy. These ideas can also be used in the home or community.Some things

Grasping Steps in the Developmental Process of Grasping In her book The Comprehending Hand, Dr. Lilli Nielsen lists the various steps in the developmental process involved in the ability to grasp:hand to mouthhand to handobjects held in handobjects held in hand put to mouthlosing objectsobjects transferred from one hand to the otherreaching out for objectsknocking objects on the

Science Science has led to the discovery of everything from gravity to medicine. Science is based on curiosity—and when children aim to learn more about the world around them, it is science that often holds the clues they need for a better understanding.How to Teach Kids Science and Why Is It ImportantLearning Liftoff website 2021

Bespoke Architects Inc. successfully designed the flagship location and learning space for TECH CAMP in Osaka, Japan. Design of TECH CAMP, one of the largest […]

Well, it’s here friends! I’ve been hanging out with 23 of my favorite little people for a week-and-a-half now, so it’s time to show you our learning space. (UPDATE – To see my 2015-2016 learning space, click here or the image below) Let me start by saying, this classroom is beautiful. Not what I’ve done...

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Resonance Board By: Dr. Lilli Nielsen The Resonance Board is made of 4 mm plywood size 150 x 150 cm (120 x 120 cm if the child is very small.) Along the edge of the underside you apply a wooden strip, which is 2 x 2 cm. It is very important to apply the strip

Learning environment is the fundamental right and an inevitable element for the child’s overall development and has direct impact on psychological, physical and social well being. Due to land scarcity and unplanned urban growth both government and private sectors are unable to provide sufficient area of land for school and college. So passive learning […]

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Little Room By Dr. Lilli Nielsen The “Little Room” is designed to give blind infants, children with slow development, severely disabled children and children with combinations of disabilities the possibility to gain the ability of reaching, the beginning of the understanding of space, and early object concept.Non-handicapped children are reaching for objects when they are

Attractive Objects Adapted from Space and Self, (Nielsen, 1992)Most objects could be perceived as useful as equipment for the “Little Room” or the Position Board. It is the children’s reaction in the form of increased activity that indicates whether an object is attractive.The list of objects presented here is meant as inspiration and to demonstrate