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01 Oct 09

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Thoughtful arrangement of the indoor and outdoor environments will support your learning goals for students.This tool provides an opportunity for experimentation with the layout of your classroom without any heavy lifting!

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Designing Learning Spaces for Instruction, not Control

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01 May 09

Linking the Information Commons to Learning

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I see that one rationale for the Commons is to "get the students to the library." In our case, it has been very effective in attracting students…our gate count was 110 percent higher…so, it will attract students. But that begs the question?once they are in the building, what do we do with them? How do we engage them? The rationale for the learning commons, in my view, is that, properly designed, implemented, and operated, it will enhance student learning and scholarship. That is the real challenge, and the real goal, of the learning commons.³
Information commons have drawn students by offering environments that address their needs,⁴ bringing together technology, content, and services in a physical space that results in an environment different from that of a typical library.
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- The technology in an information commons is intentionally more pervasive than in most traditional academic libraries.
- In an information commons, the underlying philosophy is to provide users with a seamless work environment so that they may access, manage, and produce information all at the same workstation.

25 Apr 09

Chapter 5. Student Practices and Their Impact on Learning Spaces | EDUCAUSE

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This alignment is important because well-designed learning spaces and enabling technologies encourage students to spend more time on campus, increasing engagement and improving retention.
They appear to prefer learning-by-doing rather than learning-by-listening and often choose to study in groups. Much to the consternation of adults acculturated to lectures, they become impatient in situations where they don't feel engaged.
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- While many student attributes may be important to educators, five characteristics seem particularly applicable for learning spaces:
  Digital
  Mobile
  Independent
  Social
  Participatory
- Students' comfort with the Internet means it isn't "technology" to them—it may be a way of life.
- Comfort with technology does not guarantee proficiency.
- They choose when to pay attention—and what to attend to.
- Students are quite comfortable with group work and interactions. One of the traits of the Net Generation is the ease with which they can form and re-form working groups.
- The DIY attitude extends to their creation and consumption of content on the Internet. Reputation, as well as recommendations and referrals, are of paramount importance. Curiosity, debate, and consensus are all valued traits in the blogging world. Many of today's students possess these traits.
- Used effectively and thoughtfully, technology in the hands of the instructors can bring new dimensions to the class.
- Other spaces are outfitted with movable tables, chairs, and whiteboards so that seating can be reconfigured to suit the activity.
- Spaces that catalyze social interaction, serendipitous meetings, and impromptu conversations contribute to personal and professional growth.
- The emergence of learning commons provides another example of how out-of-class time is being enriched with learning opportunities
- Creating spaces for spontaneous meetings is particularly important. "Think stops" are places for individuals to stop, relax, and meet others. Often marked by a chalkboard or whiteboard, these locations encourage impromptu meetings and conversations.
- When considering the technologies to support, remember that students no longer just consume information, they construct it—in multiple media formats.
- Learning is a social process. Often the most memorable college experiences involve connections with others, whether students or faculty.
- Connections can be virtual as well, where students work with others who are not physically colocated (through videoconferencing, for example) or who are separated by time (through asynchronous communication).
- This flexibility also allows customization, enhancing not only space utilization but also convenience.
- Neither learning nor socializing is one-dimensional; the physical complements the virtual, and vice versa. Since learning can occur any place and at any time, there are few—if any—locations where wireless is not valuable.
- Student mobility means that students, not just the institution, define the learning space.
- Although students have little fear of technology, they are not necessarily proficient with technology, information retrieval, or cognitive skills—what many call information fluency
- Some IT units locate technical support staff in classroom buildings. Learning commons create one-stop centers, incorporating services from the library, IT, and the writing center. Although they may look different or have a new name, help desks are probably here to stay.

21 Apr 09

Smart Classrooms

Smart Classrooms are technology enhanced classrooms that foster opportunities for teaching and learning by integrating learning technology, such as computers, specialized software, audience response technology, networking, and audio/visual capabilities. These classrooms are available for faculty and require a reservation prior to use.

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14 Apr 09

Chapter 4. Community: The Hidden Context for Learning | EDUCAUSE

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This chapter focuses on a powerful context for learning: community. Community catalyzes deep learning and should be a critical consideration when planning physical and virtual learning spaces.
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- Research on learning theory, how the brain works, collaborative learning, and student engagement has taught us that people learn best in community.
- The term community here refers to the social context of students and their environs. A community is a group of people with a common purpose, shared values, and agreement on goals. It has powerful qualities that shape learning. A community has the power to motivate its members to exceptional performance.
- A real community, however, exists only when its members interact in a meaningful way that deepens their understanding of each other and leads to learning.
- in a community, the learners—including faculty—are enriched by collective meaning-making, mentorship, encouragement, and an understanding of the perspectives and unique qualities of an increasingly diverse membership.
- Despite multiple theories about how people learn, they agree on one point: the critical role of interaction.
- Second, learning in community will have an important role in preparing students for their work-life to come.
- ndeed, because of the volume and volatility of information today, as well as the proliferation of information-sharing mechanisms,¹² knowledge may be seen as vested in a distributed network across communities of practice, not in individuals.
- aculty don't expect much of students so that they can concentrate on the growing demands of research, and students don't demand rigorous instruction so that they can concentrate on their social lives.
- Whether due to the absence of deep engagement between students and faculty or to their desire for peer interaction, students have begun to develop student-centered communities with their peers.²¹ While this trend satisfies the need for community, this interaction often lacks academic learning as the focal point.

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These spaces will be flexible and functional and pay greater attention to aesthetics than traditional 20th-century classrooms. This design concept extends beyond the places normally designated as "academic" such that the entire campus can become a learning space.

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Educators must create structures that support this learning. Space can have a powerful impact on learning; we cannot overlook space in our attempts to accomplish our goals.
A room with rows of tablet arm chairs facing an instructor's desk in front of chalkboards conveys the pedagogical approach "I talk or demonstrate; you listen or observe." A room of square tables with a chair on each side conveys the importance of teamwork and interaction to learning. (See Figures 1 and 2.)
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- A classroom always has a front.
- They cited research that links the physical attractiveness and lighting of a space to the motivation and task performance of those in the space.
- The decor is sterile and unstimulating; the seating arrangements rarely allow for peer-to-peer exchange; and the technology does not allow individual access to information as needed.
- Rather than appearing to be a co-learner, the faculty member is set apart. Similarly, computer labs that do not provide for multiple viewers of a monitor or libraries that do not permit talking convey a built pedagogy contrary to the ideas of social constructivism.
- adult furniture over juvenile tablet arm desks.
- Smaller places for debriefing, project work, discussion, and application of information become paramount. Outdoor spaces, lobby spaces, cafés, and residence halls all need to be considered in terms of how they can support learning.
- t makes better sense to construct spaces capable of quick reconfiguration to support different kinds of activity—moveable tables and chairs, for example.
- Human beings yearn for color, natural and task-appropriate lighting, and interesting room shapes.
- As technology changes, smaller devices will probably travel with users, who will expect wireless environments, the capacity to network with other devices and display vehicles, and access to power. Rather than cumbersome rack systems and fixed ceiling-mounted projectors, learning spaces of the future will need more flexible plug-and-play capabilities.
- Spaces should center on learning, not experts.
- new advances in learning theory
- that good space is not a luxury but a key determinant of good learning environments.

12 Feb 09

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