Green office buildings in Zabłocie

July 31, 2008
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Author:
Marta Kołpanowicz

The renovation of the post-industrial Zabłocie speeds up. After Garden Residence apartments, Lofty w Młynie and Diamante Plaza office building at Zabłocie, the construction of Enterprise Park business park has started.

The renovation of post-industrial Zabłocie speeds up. After Garden Residence apartments, Lofty w Młynie and Diamante Plaza office building in Zabłocie, the construction of Enterprise Park business park has started. Jonathan Cohen, the CEO of Irish company Quinlan Private Golub (QPG), states that Zabłocie was chosen not only because of its great location near the city centre and good transportation to crucial places, but also because the building permit was obtained quickly. It is all the more important because it will be the second investment of that type in that areaeducational efficiency.

Another subtle but important difference of the optimized university are the roles of the student and the faculty member in the learning process. Currently the implicit roles are that the faculty member simply transfers their expertise, as if it were bits of information, to the receptive students, much like pouring water from a large jug into a set of small receptive cups.

This model is inconsistent with what we know about how people learn science.

In the optimized university the role of the faculty will be as “educational designers,” utilizing their knowledge of the discipline and how best to learn that discipline to design optimized educational environments, activities, and assessment. Within those environments, students will have the role of effortful constructors of their understanding.

A critical part of the educational