Over the wall-approach

"Group spaces for the future should be adequately sized and flexible enough to accommodate a wider range of users and various ways of learning." - Schools for the future. DfES. (2002)

Schools not only adopt many new functions through the concept of community schools. The school can literally no longer be contained within its walls. Education no longer looks only at itself when problems need to be solved. Ideas from the corporate world, such as the "open working landscape" in the office, slowly seep into educational premises. Schools work together in school communities and even within international programs.

In new school concepts, the walls within the school also tend to disappear. Classes are not strictly distinguishable from each other. All students have their own specific programs, and classrooms change depending on the subject. Students learn from each other and through the internet. The textbook is no longer the only valid truth, but it is supplemented with online resources, multimedia...

Information sharing and cooperation through the walls of the classroom and the school around it, are becoming the norm.

Source: New World of Learning (VANERUM Group).