We are establishing new spaces on campus to give staff and students the opportunity to familiarise themselves with new technologies, co-create innovative ways of teaching and learning, build their digital capabilities, identify, and address any accessibility issues, develop blended & online content and offer a dedicated environment to support lifelong learning.  

In our temporary home at Prospect House, we already have some updated spaces for running workshops and events as well as a virtual reality proof of concept space to test out approaches to using VR for teaching.  

More importantly, our new Flexible Learning space in Booth Street East is projected to open in September 2023. We will be one of the first Universities to create a dedicatedHyFlexteaching space so that we can meaningfully test out this approach, helping to inform future estate planning. Booth Street East will also offer an updated VR space and content development facilities.  

In partnership with the ‘People and policy’ workstream[LINK]and in wider collaboration with colleagues across the University, we will identify requirements and effective models to ensure that flexible learning becomes business as usual for the University of Manchester. The Embedding Flexible Learning workstream will oversee this activity.