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Traditional large lecture halls are being “sunset” across Singapore’s polytechnics as they rethink learning spaces to better support blended and student-centric approaches, with various campuses transforming these halls into studios, social and collaborative areas rather than rows of fixed seating. At SP, a lecture theatre became a professional-grade virtual production studio, and another was converted into a bouldering wall as part of adapting spaces for more active and project-based work, while NP has been downsizing big theatres since 2010 and added private study pods alongside multi-use student spaces. RP has long used problem-based learning with smaller class groupings instead of traditional lectures, and both TP and NYP shifted to pre-recorded lectures with face-to-face sessions focused on hands-on tutorials, with NYP planning to turn about half of its existing lecture theatres into mixed use areas including quiet zones, maker zones and active spaces, and TP redesigning more spaces for collaboration, exhibitions and workshops as part of evolving student needs. Similar news reported in Tamil Murasu.

[The Straits Times]