Open Classrooms
DEFINITION
Open classrooms emerged in the 1960s as a response to more restrictive forms of classroom organization featuring rows of desks and a teacher at the front of the room. Generally, an open classroom provides a flexible space, enabling students to choose various activities and to integrate different learning materials into their study during periods of large or small group instruction. In more recent years, the term used more often is “innovative learning environments” and include multiple teachers with a larger number of students (e.g., 3 teachers with 90 students) in one larger space (often with breakout rooms, etc.) to encourage collaboration and active learning.
Classrooms grounded in the “open education” or “open classroom” model still exist, but mostly as localized implementations or rebranded “flexible” or “modern learning” environments rather than the mass movement seen in the 1960s–70s. Many contemporary schools use open-layout spaces, centers, and inquiry-based pedagogy that strongly echo classic open education, even if they no longer use that label. link
DATA
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4 Meta Analysis reviews
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315 Research studies
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2 Confidence level.