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EDUCAUSE Review Magazine, Volume 42, Number 1, January/February 2007

drupal — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 11:27:04 -0600

This is the entire issue of EDUCAUSE Review Magazine, Volume 42, Number 1, January/February, 2007.

Entering the Interaction Age: Implementing a Future Vision for Campus Learning Spaces

drupal — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 11:31:11 -0600

With directed effort, some ingenuity, and a future-focused vision, colleges and universities should be able to identify and leverage existing technologies with which to build aspects of "future" campus learning spaces—today.

The Psychology of Learning Environments

drupal — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 14:17:34 -0600

From Diana G. Oblinger, ed., Learning Spaces
As we build the classrooms of the future that facilitate usability, engagement, collaboration, and learning, we would do well to remember what it was about learning environments that enchanted us and commit ourselves to preserving, restoring, and creating those experiences for our own students.

Changing a Cultural Icon: The Academic Library as a Virtual Destination

drupal — Wed, 04 Jan 2006 11:21:40 -0600

Deep into the digital age, academic libraries have relinquished much of their fundamental and sustaining role. For most people, including academicians, the library—in its most basic function as a source of information—has become overwhelmingly a virtual destination.

Radical Flexibility and Student Success: An Interview with Homero Lopez

drupal — Wed, 04 Jan 2006 11:28:18 -0600

"We strive to provide faculty and learners an opportunity to experiment with learning spaces that have been designed with a radical flexibility that encourages them to 'please move the furniture' and that untethers them to the maximum extent possible."

The IT Leader as Alchemist: Finding the True Gold

drupal — Wed, 04 Jan 2006 11:24:06 -0600

Today's IT leaders can work as alchemists, bringing people, technologies, and learning content together to produce three types of true gold: twenty-first-century hybrid courses, learning spaces, and literacy.

EDUCAUSE Review Magazine, Volume 40, Number 4, July/August 2005

drupal — Thu, 30 Jun 2005 09:05:44 -0500

This is the entire issue of EDUCAUSE Review Magazine, Volume 40, Number 4, July/August 2005.

Creation of the Learning Space: Catalysts for Envisioning and Navigating the Design Process

drupal — Wed, 29 Jun 2005 10:27:19 -0500

A strategic design process that identifies space needs and analyzes possible solutions, functionality, and costs allows campus planning groups and architectural designers to take a fresh look at utilization, collaboration, flexibility, and adaptability to cost-effectively create institutional learning spaces.

Design of the Learning Space: Learning and Design Principles

drupal — Wed, 29 Jun 2005 10:14:07 -0500

By focusing on design principles grounded in deeper learning principles, in what makes successful teaching and learning, a campus can revolutionize the design process to create learning spaces that meet the needs of both faculty and students.

Future of the Learning Space: Breaking Out of the Box

drupal — Wed, 29 Jun 2005 10:37:00 -0500

This discussion of the inadequacies of traditional classrooms, of ideas that break with these traditions, and of suggested areas for the design team to keep in mind can help campuses plan pioneering, rather than imitative, learning spaces for the future.