ShutterstockIf you step into a newly built school these days, chances are you will see classrooms that look very different to the classrooms most of us spent our school years in as children. On a ...

The trend of building open-plan and flexible classrooms in new Victorian schools is creating noisy, distracting learning spaces that impede effective teaching, the Grattan Institute has warned.

Open-plan, flexible classrooms should be avoided because they encourage “fad” teaching methods and students find it difficult to concentrate in the expansive spaces, a parliamentary inquiry ...

Open-plan classroom, out-the-front lecture, or mixed-ability classes, education is only limited by the endurance of the professional teacher. Many prefer to teach outside or on camps, when ...

Pasco County’s Fox Hollow Elementary School is building walls between its teachers and students. Literally. The campus, which ...

Open-plan classrooms are impeding student learning, the Grattan Institute has warned. The think-tank is calling on the state government to move away from building flexible, open-plan classrooms, and ...

For 50 years, open-plan has dominated our living spaces. Whether in our homes, our workplaces, or our schools, there has been a push to knock down the walls and open up the space.

Hokey pokey classrooms: Walls down, walls up, and shake them all about. A $112m renovation removed the walls at Picton High School to flip the school into an open learning space.

If you step into a newly built school these days, chances are you will see classrooms that look very different to the classrooms most of us spent our school years in as children. On a recent visit ...

The campus, which opened in 1991, was constructed without classroom walls as part of the “open schools” concept aimed at making it easier for teachers to collaborate and students to work with ...