Seating Systems And The Flexible Learning Environment

Improved student engagement and enhanced learning environments go hand in hand. Seating design at lecture halls and in classrooms must be given as much attention as room layout, lighting, sound, instructional technology, and other aspects – essential elements combining to create a stimulating instructive space where students can truly learn; a space that is flexible.

The Best Learning Environment Seating Systems Support Students. Literally!

To best prepare diligent students for exams, educators may need to re-examine the physical learning space that they provide. Offering outstanding facilities can make a university, college, academy or other places of education enticing to potential new students, too. And with students spending countless hours (individually and together) in lecture halls each academic year, it simply makes sense to put the time and effort into making them a superb place in which to learn.

If the chairs are comfortable, stable and offer sufficient support, students can focus upon listening, learning, absorbing… padded seats with cushioned armrests and backrests, which can be upholstered from a choice of fabrics, provide sumptuous comfort yet without core stability being compromised.

All this ease and convenience also describes perfectly the way in which seating stands can be partially or fully folded away or entirely moved, by remote control (or manually, if that is preferred). Retractable and removable seating is often a popular choice at multipurpose venues, with fixed seating being more common in halls used largely for lectures.

Lecture Hall Seating For When It’s Time To ‘Get Active’

Thanks to modern seating innovation, seating stands can be designed to facilitate collaborative group learning, as well as teacher-to-class set ups. Plus, stands can be modular, mobile and telescopic, meaning that floor space can be created for team activities, role-playing and self-discovery learning sessions. The days of the traditional classroom and lecture hall are dwindling; now, students and educators expect venues to accommodate a variety of participatory teaching and learning experiences so that inventive and cooperative approaches can be implemented quickly and almost effortlessly.

Seating You Will Only Need To Install Once

Seasoned seating system designers understand the role that flexible physical space plays in lecture hall success. They realise that modes of instruction these days can be multiple. They also appreciate that venues must strike a balance between providing students with seats that are at once comfortable and robust.

Although not exorbitantly priced, it's true that modern seating doesn't come cheap and universities, colleges and schools want chairs, benches and stands tough enough to last for many years ahead. The good news for them is that a range of durable seating types are available, including wooden and fully upholstered seats, both of which are easy on the eye whilst simultaneously being hard-wearing and comfortable. Designs can be customised, too.

Quick Cleaning Plus Minimal Maintenance. Ideal.

With most lecture halls being constantly in use, quick and easy seat cleaning is crucial. Seating experts factor this in at design stage, acknowledging that high traffic at venues leaves little time in between lectures for sprucing up ergonomically designed chairs, which must withstand heavy use as well as being light enough to tip and completely fold up manually.

Cleaning aside, seats should require little maintenance, save for occasional repairs to torn fabric perhaps, or maybe where a student has been a little heavy-handed with a writing table? A maintenance contract should be in place wherever possible - don't leave it to chance.

Finally, and returning to the subject of seat folding, most modern seating stands are designed with silent seat movement built in; to ensure that students don’t miss a single word of that much-anticipated end-of-semester lecture from an eminent guest speaker!