Contributed by Organizations or Campuses; Articles, Papers, and Reports; and Learning Space Design
Cats in the Classroom: Online Learning in Hybrid Space
| Title: | Cats in the Classroom: Online Learning in Hybrid Space (ID: CSD4200) | | Author(s): | Michelle Kazmer (Florida State University) | | Source: | First Monday | | Origin: | Contributed by Organizations or Campuses (2005) | | Type: | Articles, Papers, and Reports | | Abstract: | Students and professors create a shared on–campus classroom environment through individual and collaborative contributions. Similar contributions go into the design of an online classroom. Online instructors build the learning environment to create a shared learning experience, and designers of course management software reinforce this consistency. Examining the online classroom as "hybrid space" — comprising physical and online space — reveals a more complex reality than a seamless learning environment. Students and instructors share a learning experience, but they also occupy local environments that influence their learning and indirectly influence the experience of everyone in the online class. | | View this resource: | |
Unplugged U
| Title: | Unplugged U (ID: CSD3971) | | Origin: | Contributed by Organizations or Campuses (2002) | | Type: | Articles, Papers, and Reports | | Abstract: | Dozens of schools are deploying wireless networks and turning students loose. As corporations move tentatively toward going airborne and consumer wireless service startups wink in and out of existence, students at many colleges are eagerly embracing life untethered, and creating an environment ripe for explosive innovation. | | View this resource: | |
Revisiting the Classroom
| 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. | | View this resource: | |
Libraries Designed for Learning
| Title: | Libraries Designed for Learning (ID: CSD4037) | | Author(s): | Scott Bennett (Council of Independent Colleges) and Scott Bennett (University of North Florida) | | Origin: | Contributed by Organizations or Campuses (2003) | | Type: | Articles, Papers, and Reports | | Abstract: | To what extent have recent library design projects been driven by an understanding of how students learn and how faculty teach? To find out, Yale Librarian Emeritus Scott Bennett conducted an extensive study of the motivations and planning methods for library renovation and construction projects undertaken between 1992 and 2001. His study entailed a Web-based survey of more than 380 institutions, and phone interviews with 31 library directors and chief academic officers. He concludes that while most of the projects are serving users well, they have rarely been informed by a systematic assessment of how students learn and faculty teach. The author suggests that planning based on such an assessment could equip the library to serve an even more vital function as a space for teaching and learning. | | View this resource: | |
Library as Place: Rethinking Roles, Rethinking Space
| Title: | Library as Place: Rethinking Roles, Rethinking Space (ID: CSD4011) | | Origin: | Contributed by Organizations or Campuses (2005) | | Type: | Articles, Papers, and Reports | | Abstract: | What is the role of a library when users can obtain information from any location? And what does this role change mean for the creation and design of library space? Six authors—an architect, four librarians, and a professor of art history and classics—explore these questions in Library as Place: Rethinking Roles, Rethinking Space. In their essays, the authors challenge us to think about new potential for the place we call the library and underscore the growing importance of the library as a place for teaching, learning, and research in the digital age. | | View this resource: | |
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