{"id":8371,"date":"2025-05-05T15:37:34","date_gmt":"2025-05-05T13:37:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/hecoutreach\/?p=8371"},"modified":"2025-05-05T15:42:01","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T13:42:01","slug":"with-the-scale-room-hec-lausanne-redefines-its-learning-space-in-futuristic-mode","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/hecoutreach\/with-the-scale-room-hec-lausanne-redefines-its-learning-space-in-futuristic-mode\/","title":{"rendered":"With the SCALE room, HEC Lausanne redefines its learning space in futuristic mode"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

What if a classroom could be transformed into an interaction laboratory? At HEC Lausanne, the SCALE (Student Centered and Active Learning Environment) room embodies this strategic shift: reinventing learning around collaboration, agility and student-centered pedagogy<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Located in the Internef building on the UNIL campus, this room is resolutely looking to the future and to pedagogical innovation. Gone are the rows of seats and frontal teaching: replaced by a modular environment designed for group work, dynamic exchanges and the active involvement of each individual. “The SCALE room was born out of a clear need and a strategic desire on the part of the Dean’s Office to create a teaching space where students interact directly with teachers,” explains Emmanuel Fernandes, pedagogical engineer at HEC Lausanne (UNIL) and project manager for this new environment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Designed as a lever for pedagogical innovation, the SCALE space offers a fully modular layout. Its three partitioned zones, with a total capacity of up to 150 people (2 rooms with 36 seats and an L-shaped room with 78 seats), are interconnected both visually – thanks to touch screens broadcasting identical or differentiated content in each space – and audibly, via a sound system capable of covering several zones simultaneously or separately. Tables on castors enable rapid reconfiguration as required. This flexibility makes a wide variety of uses possible: collaborative debates, correction of exercises in participatory mode, student presentations, team project management or cross-disciplinary discussions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“The SCALE room has been designed to encourage student involvement, provide an environment conducive to exchange and motivate students to learn face-to-face,” explains Emmanuel Fernandes. Designed with an evolutionary vision, the room has already hosted a number of pilot courses, generating enthusiasm from teaching staff and students alike. “It’s not just a change of furniture, it’s a change of posture. The teacher is no longer fixed behind a desk; he or she circulates, interacts, adapts.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The result: an enriched learning experience, where exchanges take precedence over unidirectional transmission. A challenge that is fully in line with HEC Lausanne’s values, notably Collaboration, and reflects the faculty’s determination to translate its strategy into concrete action.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The SCALE room was designed for teaching at HEC Lausanne, but it is also open to the entire university community. “We hope it will serve as a model, a catalyst for other initiatives. Pedagogical innovation also depends on the spaces in which it is deployed,” concludes Emmanuel Fernandes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What happens next? A phase of observation, listening to usage, and gradual adjustments. For while the SCALE room has already found its name, its potential is only just beginning to express itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We would also like to thank the entire Unibat team and the Faculty’s IT department for their invaluable collaboration throughout this year-long project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For any questions about how the room works or to request a visit, please contact Emmanuel Fernandes (Emmanuel.Fernandes@unil.ch<\/a> ). Reservations are made via the UNIL room reservation system (reference Internef 001).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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