Thursday 5 December 2013

Study space and laptops for loan

Make an individual study box for students also give them laptops for rent, only for the use in uni. As these services also provided by one of the University in London.

Thank you for your suggestions. I am sure you have tried out the study space in the IT Suite, if you haven’t may I recommend that you do?
There is a variety of study furniture to meet individual requirements  in the IT Suite. The furniture on offer includes a single Vitra study desk (in orange or black) some with laptop plug in power sockets some with University PCs.
On the other LRC floors there is seating for over 900 people. There are some individual study carrels on levels 2 & 3 the silent floors, and some on shared desk space elsewhere. To accommodate all of our thriving University community individual study boxes are not an option in the space that we have available. The teaching style of the University requires Learning Resources to offer group and social learning spaces and they have to be given as our priority.

Laptops to rent suggestion: University of Bedfordshire offers approximately 1 PC per 20 students through Learning Resources. Desktop PCs offer a more stable connection to the internet and a wider range of products for a large number of users. WiFi use is available throughout the University but is subject to connection variation when there is heavy customer demand. Investment in laptops for loan is being considered and a project may come to light in the next couple of years.