Contributed by Organizations or Campuses; Articles, Papers, and Reports; Learning Space Design; and Teaching and Learning

New Learning Spaces: Smart Learners, Not Smart Classrooms

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Title:New Learning Spaces: Smart Learners, Not Smart Classrooms (ID: CSD3964)
Author(s):Howard Strauss (Princeton University)
Origin:Contributed by Organizations or Campuses (2002)
Type:Articles, Papers, and Reports
Abstract:The goal of improving teaching and learning is critical, in fact essential, for every student and therefore for every college and university. But turning our classrooms into spaces resembling Hollywood studios is just throwing great quantities of money at this issue instead of addressing the really difficult problems that need to be solved to improve learning.
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Revisiting the Classroom

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Title:Revisiting the Classroom (ID: CSD3965)
Origin:Contributed by Organizations or Campuses (2003)
Type:Articles, Papers, and Reports
Abstract:For all of the interest in enhancing classrooms with IT equipment, the hardest problem today is that the stock of rooms has to cover both traditional and newer teaching methods. Designs and equipment choices that allow the new uses without compromising the old ones are the best approach and are becoming more possible.
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