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Design of a Learning Space Management System for Open and Adaptable School Facilities

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In this design-based research project, a learning space management system was developed for the Valteri School Onerva in Central-Finland. The school represents a modern educational environment with open and adaptable learning spaces. The goal was to develop a software to support the stakeholders in organising flexible pedagogical activities and sharing pedagogical practices. To reach this goal, we utilised value-focused thinking as a requirements elicitation method, to identify the objectives that the stakeholders associate with the new environment. In the implementation phase, we organised participatory design workshops, to involve the stakeholders in decision-making, to ensure that the prototype development was proceeding according to their needs. As a result, we elaborate how we utilised value-focused thinking, what were the objectives that were identified, and how they were transformed into system requirements. Finally, we describe the first prototype of the learning space management system, which was developed using these requirements.

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Acknowledgements

We would like to express our gratitude to the Valteri School Onerva’s personnel for participating in the research project. We also thank Kirsi Heinonen, M.Sc., for assisting in the data collection. This research has been funded by the Valteri School Onerva and the University of Jyvaskyla, Faculty of Information Technology, under the projects entitled ONSPACE and ONSPACE2. The research did not receive any specific grant from funding agencies in the public, commercial, or not-for-profit sectors.

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  1. Faculty of Information Technology, University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland

    Ari Tuhkala, Hannakaisa Isomäki & Markus Hartikainen

  2. Department of Computer Science, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK

    Alexandra Cristea

  3. Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, University of Dundee, Dundee, Scotland

    Andrea Alessandrini

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Tuhkala, A., Isomäki, H., Hartikainen, M., Cristea, A., Alessandrini, A. (2018). Design of a Learning Space Management System for Open and Adaptable School Facilities. In: Escudeiro, P., Costagliola, G., Zvacek, S., Uhomoibhi, J., McLaren, B. (eds) Computers Supported Education. CSEDU 2017. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 865. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-94640-5_2

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