New Education Environments

In order to acquire the kinds of knowledge for transforming the relationships between oneself, society and other members of society in positive ways, and to be able to use such knowledge with wisdom and effectiveness, at FUN we have planned, designed, created, and improved on-campus environment from various perspectives. As a result, FUN provides the kind of spatial environment that “facilitates learning” as described below, in terms of architectural, facilities and systems dynamics.

Open Space

• The first concept is Open Space. Here, the design of the campus building is aimed at providing spaces in which both students and academic faculty are able to communicate on a daily basis. Such a highly communicative environment is achieved by the creation of open and large-scaled self-study spaces in front of faculty offices whose front side glass-wall faces out directly on to student spaces. It is possible to view multiple on-campus activities from a distance from various vantage points throughout this unique FUN interior space.
• Another Open Space strategy involves literally opening up the FUN library and self-study spaces to the general public on a daily basis.

Open Mind

• The second concept - Open Mind - involves the following main aspects:
• Provision of communication-rich education by having students taught in relatively in small groups;
• Project Learning, as a problem and task-based educational style for year three students in which students identify a certain problem and find solutions through collaborative learning and research;
• Graduation study conducted both on and off-campus, in which students are not shut off from the outside world;
• Connecting and linking on-campus activities to real world situations; open presentation of results for Project Learning and graduation study to the public; consulting local entrepreneurs as to their needs; having the local community actively engage and participate in FUN-based investigation and research;
• Include Faculty members from diverse fields including Mathematics, Physics, Information Sciences, the Arts, and Communication Studies;
• Team-teaching, planned and implemented by multiple faculty members;
• Provision of a LAN environment – a vital learning media available in lecture rooms, library, self-study spaces, and research laboratories; and
• Application of a class evaluation system to improve educational outcomes.

Furthermore, communication coursework also support these principles across the board and behind the scenes. We aim for students to learn various self-expression skills mainly in English as an international language and to polish their research findings with appropriately creative presentation styles.