Creating a Responsive and Responsible Learning Environment: Bookopolis@UiTM Malaysia

Norshiha Saidin (Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia), Nur Hidayah Md Yazid (Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia), Sakinatul Ain Jelani (Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia), and Leele Susana Jamian (Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia)
Copyright: © 2023 |Pages: 101
EISBN13: 9781668495551|DOI: 10.4018/978-1-6684-6076-4.ch006
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Abstract

New ideas about learning spaces offer a significant opportunity for higher education to transform learning. The creation of a reading-friendly space and a book exchange program, ‘Bookopolis', offered UiTM Foundation Centre an opportunity to encourage active learning and create a responsive learning environment. 'Bookopolis' fulfilled the reading needs of the students in an economic and innovative way. Creativity and necessity provided the impetus to transform a non-functional space into an accessible and exciting area for reading and discussions. A flexible system of self-check in and out inculcates the values of trust and integrity, thus heightening a sense of responsibility. The redesigned learning space optimizes the current learning theory to support and extend students' learning environment. This chapter shares the journey and experience in creating a responsive learning space, encouraging a reading culture and literacy skills in a demanding one-year foundation program.
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