Future classroom design will take into consideration a number of factors

This new style of classroom design necessitates the use of a different type of flooring in order to accommodate cable management.
University campuses such as MIT, Yale, West Point, Johns Hopkins, and Stanford, among other institutions, have implemented low-profile Commercial Vinyl Floor  to better distribute cabling throughout the classroom.

The Active Learning Environment at North Carolina State University is student-centered.
SCALE-UP is a Student-Centered Active Learning Environment (SCALE-UP) with studio-style classrooms that emphasize student cooperation and teacher mobility between groups. It was developed by North Carolina State University (NCSU) for its undergraduate programs and has since been adopted by other institutions. As a substitute for separate laboratories and lectures, students make observations and conduct research on interesting topics while professors hold class-wide discussions, conversing with them rather than lecturing at them. In research, it has been demonstrated that the SCALE-UP methodology can be used successfully in all class sizes, regardless of their size.

The SCALE-UP concept, in general, is intended to assist students in completing brief, enjoyable activities in small groups of students. Student seating was designed to resemble that of a restaurant, with instructors roaming around the room and engaging with each team. The original SCALE-UP classroom concept was designed to look like a restaurant, with students seated at circular tables. In addition to hundreds of colleges and universities around the world, an increasing number of forward-thinking elementary schools and senior high schools have embraced the SCALE-UP classroom concept.

The use of technology is an essential component of every SCALE-UP classroom. Because these classrooms are designed to allow students to work in a hands-on environment, the use of technology helps to maximize the potential for creativity among students. One or more of the following technologies are recommended for a SCALE-UP classroom: whiteboards (or smartboards), computers, projection, and screen sharing.

Collaboration with David Litster and Peter Dourmashkin, both of whom are co-principal investigators on the TEAL project, Belcher began reformatting the pedagogic practices of first-year undergraduate students in physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the fall of 2004.

To meet the requirements of Cement raised floor, the three researchers utilized the Scale-Up program at North Carolina State University, as well as other innovative techniques such as the addition of electricity and magnetism visualizations to their projects. While Belcher was heavily involved in the reformatting of 8.02X Physics II at MIT, the other two investigators were solely responsible for the development of 8.01X Physics I: Classical Mechanics, which was offered in the first semester of the following year.

The result demonstrated how successfully the scientists' ideas were put into action.
Comparing TEAL procedures to traditional education, low-, intermediate-, and high-scoring students in MIT physics classes gained approximately twice the usual normalized learning accretions when compared to the control group. These findings are consistent with those of other studies conducted at universities and research institutions across the country.