Adams Building - Active Learning Classroom

Active Learning Classrooms (ALCs)

Infrastructure to help students get the most out of their learning experience.

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What are Active Learning Classrooms?

Active Learning Classrooms are spaces that are designed to support teaching and learning in an atmosphere conducive to engaging students actively in their own learning.

Active Learning Classrooms:

• Promote not only whole-class, but also group and one-to-one interactions;
• Allow students to work in a collaborative, supportive, and enriched environment;
• Allow students to engage with learning materials and each other; and
• Foster effective learning.

(Source: Active Learning Classrooms (ALCs) | Teaching and Learning Services (TLS) - McGill University)

Project Description:

Adams Building - Classroom 315. Project will include a general improvement of the classroom layout to incorporate interactive learning experience, the purchasing of more modern furniture with emphasis on storage, and a new AV system. The purpose is to create a similar room as Frank Dawson Adams Building #211. 

Room 211 at FDA . Functioning primarily as an earth and planetary sciences teaching lab, this classroom is flexible enough to accommodate teaching and learning in many academic disciplines. The triangular tables are custom made for the classroom, and are designed so that students can see one another with ease. Two types of content can be projected on four surfaces, and mobile whiteboards are positioned around the room for use by students sitting at the tables. The room is bathed in natural light, and the choice of natural wood for the tables and a neutral colour palette enhances the aesthetic quality of the room.

Project Details:

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Sustainable Procurement

The businesses with which the University will contract with in the course of this project will have respect the McGill Supplier Code of Conduct.

Other requirements may apply, such as (for example): the quantification and limiting of GHG emissions over the contract or asset lifecycle, sustainable construction/product certifications, involvement of indigenous businesses or of social economy businesses, design for circularity, and so on.

Pictures: Owen Egan