The Educator Magazine U.K. Sept-Dec 2022 - Magazine - Page 22
Making a success of
flexible learning space
Southern Regional College offer student’s self-service laptop loans
Southern Regional College (SRC) based
in Northern Ireland creates a successful
agile learning space for their students.
The students have the freedom to
borrow a laptop when they need it by
accessing a loaned device from their
newly installed LapSafe® Self-Service
Laptop Loan Lockers.
In their new Armagh Campus, SRC
had the chance to create a purpose
build space for their student.
The “Investigation Zone” became a
multifunctional area to support
student learning. Designed to be
flexible enough to accommodate large
groups of students for lectures or guest
speakers and be easily configured to
have breakout sessions of smaller
groups and workshops. It also has quiet
areas for one-to-one and self-directed
study.
With this innovative approach to the
learning space a dynamic solution was
needed for providing access to
technology. Providing self-service
laptop loan lockers gave the staff and
students access to the technology they
need whenever they need it, whilst
saving on space. Traditional PCs took
up too much room and didn’t provide
the flexibility that was needed.
“I found the whole process to be
effortless and efficient. The installation
team were great, they fitted the unit
in a timely manner and with minimal
disruption”*
Southern Regional College
Self-Service Laptop Loan Lockers at the new Armagh Campus
This flexible approach to IT provision
and asset management means the
students can help themselves to a
laptop when they need one and staff
can have confidence in the safety of the
devices while making the most of their
new learning zone.
LapSafe® Self-Service Loan Lockers are
a popular solution within the education sector. The intelligent locker
system loans devices or lockers 24 x 7.
Fully charged devices such as laptops,
Chromebooks and tablets can be automatically loaned to borrowers without
staff interaction.
*quote taken from the SRC case study
which can be found at ...
https://www.lapsafe.com/case-studies/
southern-regional-college