期刊名称：Australasian Journal of Educational Technology
印刷版ISSN：1449-3098
电子版ISSN：1449-5554
出版年度：2018
卷号：34
期号：6
DOI：10.14742/ajet.4516
语种：English
出版社：Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education
摘要：Much of the literature on university learning spaces focuses on the undergraduate student experience, neglecting experiences of research students in new spaces. This article is concerned with research students’ needs and expectations of a learning space. It focuses on a recently opened shared activity-based learning space that was specifically built for research students. The methodological focus draws on case study methods and hermeneutic phenomenology to observe students’ lived experience in the new space and how they make sense of it. Twenty-six data sets, involving interviews, surveys and feedback, were collected from research students. The findings were analysed across three themes: physical, virtual, and hybrid space; a space free of distractions; and belonging to, and interaction with, university community. The article indicates the benefits of the new space for research students and articulates the particular needs of research students in such spaces.
