SCALE-UP

Typical large enrollment classroom in a college

SCALE-UP, Student-Centered Active Learning Environment with Upside-Down Pedagogies, is a classroom specifically created to facilitate active, collaborative learning in a classroom.[1] The spaces are carefully designed to facilitate interactions between teams of students who work on short, interesting tasks revolving around specific content. Some people think the rooms look more like restaurants than classrooms.[2]

A 99-seat room at NCSU
  1. ^ Knaub, Alexis V.; Foote, Kathleen T.; Henderson, Charles; Dancy, Melissa; Beichner, Robert J. (2016-05-05). "Get a room: the role of classroom space in sustained implementation of studio style instruction". International Journal of STEM Education. 3 (1): 8. doi:10.1186/s40594-016-0042-3. ISSN 2196-7822. S2CID 54212462.
  2. ^ Gaffney, J.; Richards, E.; Kustusch, M. B.; Ding, L.; Beichner, R. (2008). "Scaling up education reform". Journal of College Science Teaching. 37 (5): 48–53. JSTOR 42993214.