In Kathleen Scholl and Gowri Gulwadi’s article on college campus landscapes, they propose that “the natural landscape of a university campus is an attentional learning resource for its students” (Paragraph 1). Scholl and Gulwadi state that on a college campus, not only must the classrooms be designed to optimize learning, but the entire campus must be facilitative to learning. They state that the majority of learning “takes place throughout the campus,” not just in structured environment of a classroom (Paragraph 2). Scholl and Gulwadi go on to propose that natural spaces on campus have a “replenishing” effect on cognitive and attentional fatigue, as well as “support[ing] student learning experiences” (Paragraph 3).

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Article Source: http://libjournal.uncg.edu/jls/article/view/972/777