EDUCAUSE | Podcasts and Learning Space Design

E07 Podcast: Top-Down or Bottom-Up? Designing and Redesigning a Digital Campus Somewhere in Between

gbayne — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 17:46:05 -0500

This thirty-two minute podcast features a session from the EDUCAUSE 2007 Annual Conference. The session, "Top-Down or Bottom-Up? Designing and Redesigning a Digital Campus Somewhere in Between," is presented by Hans Ogg, Head of the IT Department at INHOLLAND University of Professional Education. PowerPoint slides are also available for this session.

Four years ago, INHOLLAND university launched a learning scenario that required the latest in electronic communication and collaboration tools. The new digital campus that was built is being redesigned now using Windows Vista and SharePoint 2007. What was learned during these past few years, and what did the designers hope to achieve now?

E07 Podcast: An Interview with Mara Hancock, ETS Associate Director of Learning Systems at UC Berkely.

gbayne — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 16:57:20 -0600

In this 17 minute podcast, we feature an interview with Mara Hancock, Associate Director for UC Berkeley's Educational Technology Services department. Educational Technology Services promotes and supports the effective integration of technology in teaching, learning and communication at the University of California, Berkeley. We are dedicated to service, partnership, and innovation.

E07 Podcast: An Interview with Heather Gordon

kellywalker — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 09:48:21 -0600

In this 12-minute podcast, we feature a phone interview with Heather Gordon, Director, Information Services and University Librarian, James Cook University . She discusses the University's recent Review of Information Services Report and the role of the library and its staff in providing resources to enhance learning, research, and information literacy. Gordon also discusses her role as Copyright Officer for James Cook University.

EDUCAUSE2006 Podcast: Classroom Technology Standards

Carie417 — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 15:56:02 -0500

In this 40-minute recording from the 2006 EDUCAUSE Annual Conference, we'll hear from Kathryn Gates, Jie Tang and Anil Vinjamur in a session entitled Classroom Technology Standards and Design Made Simple. They share analysis of Portland Community College's five-year project to deploy standardized classroom technology tools on four campuses in Portland, Oregon.

Deborah Bickford and David Wright on Creating New Spaces for Learning

jcummings — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 13:06:12 -0600

With the ELI 2007 Annual Meeting fast approaching, I interviewed the University of Dayton's Deborah Bickford and David Wright on the ideas behind their upcoming featured session, "Creating New Spaces for Learning in Community." They will conduct their session on Tuesday, January 23, from 10:00-11:00 AM, along with fellow presenter Bill Dittoe of Educational Facilities Consultants.

My discussion with Bickford and Wright focused on the factors that motivated the University of Dayton to focus on learning spaces as a key component of its academic planning and development. They also reviewed the challenges the university encountered in effectively engaging the institutional community in learning space design, as well as the approaches the university took to overcome them. Finally, Bickford and Wright talked about options institutions might consider in assessing the impact of learning spaces on learning.

An Interview with Jim Gregory

mpasiewicz — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 11:29:42 -0600

In this 17 minute recording, we'll hear from Jim Gregory about a range of topics including a very interesting approach to classroom technology support and the use of automatic lecture recording systems (and video more broadly).

An Interview with Lisa Hinchliffe

mpasiewicz — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 10:35:15 -0600

In this 15 minute recording, Lisa Hinchliffe shares some thoughts on, among other things, the role of librarians in the social computing sphere and shares some thoughts on her experiences there.

This interview is provided courtesy of CNI and was recorded at their 2006 Fall Task Force Meeting. The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) is an organization dedicated to supporting the transformative promise of networked information technology for the advancement of scholarly communication and the enrichment of intellectual productivity. You can learn more about CNI at their web site, http://www.cni.org

An Interview with Rachel Edwards

mpasiewicz — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 14:49:36 -0500

In this 16 minute recording, we'll hear from Rachael Edwards, Learning Grid Manager at the University of Warwick. Listen in as she shares a bit about their innovative library and learning space.

An Interview with MIT's Phil Long

mpasiewicz — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 19:44:39 -0500

The attached MP3 provides continuing coverage of a series of interviews conducted at the 2006 EDUCAUSE Annual Conference. Listen as Marilu Goodyear hosts a 30 minute interview with Phil Long, Senior Strategist for the Academic Computing Enterprise at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Among other things, they take on the issue of patents, discuss Ray Kurzweil's Law of Accelerating Returns, and tackle the prospects for continued research on learning space design.

An Interview with Dennis Trinkle

mpasiewicz — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 17:54:57 -0500

In this 23 minute recording, we'll hear from Valparaiso's CIO, Dennis Trinkle. Listen in as he shares a few thoughts on his 361º Model for Transforming Teaching and Learning with Technology, scholarly communication in a digital age, learning space design and cyberliability insurance.

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Dennis was also recently quoted in a recent Chronicle article about cyberliability.

E2005 Podcast: Rethinking the Campus Learning Environment

podcaster — Tue, 31 Jan 2006 17:31:44 -0600

This 48 minute recording provides coverage of the 2005 EDUCAUSE Annual Conference Session entitled Drywall, Wireless, and Course Management: Rethinking the Campus Learning Environment.

E2005 Podcast: Learning Technologies Affecting Design of Learning Spaces

podcaster — Thu, 26 Jan 2006 16:52:02 -0600

This 45 minute recording provides coverage of the 2005 EDUCAUSE Annual Conference Session entitled How Learning Technologies Are Affecting the Design of Learning Spaces.

Joan Lippincott Interview

mpasiewicz — Wed, 26 Oct 2005 16:16:00 -0500

This 30 minute interview with CNI's Joan Lippincott provides coverage of a range of topics including learning space design, IT/Library Collaboration, and blogs.

Informal Spaces & The Design Process, An Interview with Lori Gee & Terry Hajduk

jcummings — Wed, 12 Oct 2005 12:18:03 -0500

In my second interview with Lori Gee and Terry Hajduk, we discussed participant questions related to their ELI '05 Fall Focus Session presentation, The Importance of Informal Spaces for Learning, Collaboration, and Socialization. While our first conversation focused on issues of institutional culture, this interview addresses the design process for informal learning spaces. Participants asked Gee and Hajduk to address:

How widely Gee and Hajduk's views on informal space design are shared across the architect / designer community
The extent to which architects and designers may be approaching the design process based on "boilerplates from the past"
The weaknesses of applying business space design models to learning environments, and
Their starting points for designing a library today, based on contemporary views of informal spaces.

If you would like to view their original presentation in addition to listening to the attached MP3 file, you can access it via the focus session proceedings.

Institutional Culture & Informal Space Design, An Interview with Lori Gee &Terry Hajduk

jcummings — Wed, 12 Oct 2005 11:57:14 -0500

Lori Gee, Learning Environments Strategist for Herman Miller, Inc., and Terry Hajduk, Principal at ARX Design, conducted the general session presentation The Importance of Informal Spaces for Learning, Collaboration, and Socialization at ELI's 2005 Fall Focus Session in Sept. Recently, they joined me to discuss two sets of participant questions stemming from their presentation.

In the first interview, which is attached as an MP3 file, Gee and Hajduk discuss some of the cultural issues related to the design of informal learning spaces. In particular, focus session participants were interested in getting their views on:

Integrating a student-centered design philosophy into research-centric institutional environments
Guidelines for piloting informal space design approaches;
Strategies for getting student input into the design process, and
Whether assessment findings establish the effectiveness of informal space design approaches in enhancing learning.

As you listen to the interview, you may find it useful to review Gee and Hajduk's original presentation, which is available from the focus session proceedings.

Informal Learning Spaces in Support of the Institutional Mission - ELI '05 Fall Focus Session Audio

jcummings — Fri, 07 Oct 2005 12:35:00 -0500

The attached MP3 file contains the audio from the general session presentation conducted by Nancy Chism at the ELI ’05 Fall Focus Session. In her presentation, Chism sought to set the context for the design of informal learning spaces in terms of their relation to the institution’s academic mission. She discussed:

Establishing a shared understanding of what might fall under the heading of "informal learning spaces"
Thinking about what constitutes the "instituitonal mission" and its various dimensions
Identifying how institutional mission and space intersect
Examining different spaces and determining what they say about learning (built pedagogy), and
Identifying informal learning space issues about which we need a greater understanding.

If you would like to view her PowerPoint slides while listening to the presentation, you can access them through the focus session proceedings. A PDF file with the text from her remarks is also available as part of the proceedings.

Importance of Informal Spaces for Learning, Collaboration, and Socialization - ELI '05 Fall Focus Session Audio

jcummings — Fri, 07 Oct 2005 10:23:00 -0500

The attached MP3 file contains the audio from the general session presentation conducted by Lori Gee and Terry Hajduk at the ELI ’05 Fall Focus Session – Design of Informal Learning Spaces. In their presentation, Gee and Hajduk highlighted the following principles as central to the design of effective informal learning spaces:

The entire campus is a learning environment that provides opportunities for further learning;
Informal spaces for learning, collaboration, and socialization are critical components of both scheduled and unscheduled campus spaces; and
Space drives behaviors and behaviors need to change for our society to realize its learning goals.

Gee and Hajduk explored these principles across a range of institutional examples. To view those examples while listening to the file, you can download a PDF file of their presentation from the focus session proceedings.

Trends in Informal Space Design - Audio from ELI '05 Fall Focus Session

jcummings — Fri, 07 Oct 2005 09:48:11 -0500

The attached MP3 file contains the full audio from the general session presentation conducted by Malcolm Brown and Phil Long at the ELI '05 Fall Focus Session - Design of Informal Learning Spaces. In the presentation, Brown and Long identify three trends as significantly influencing the present and future of informal learning space design:

Intentional support for social learning strategies, informed by principles
A return to human-centered design, and
Support for diverse, personally-owned devices to enrich academic learning.

You can review the presentation slides while listening to Brown and Long’s session by downloading their PowerPoint file from the focus session proceedings.

Institutional Mission and Informal Learning Space Design

jcummings — Wed, 05 Oct 2005 10:47:56 -0500

Nancy Chism, Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, served as the opening speaker for the ELI 2005 Fall Focus Session on informal learning space design. Her presentation focused on how an institution could be design its informal spaces to support its academic mission.

Following the session, I interviewed Dr. Chism regarding questions focus session participants submitted about her presentation. In the attached MP3 file, we discuss assessment issues related to informal learning space design and strategies for engaging students in the design process.

In the last 3-4 minutes of the interview, I highlight a few related Web pages. To save a few minutes, you can access those URLs here:

The EDUCAUSE Learning Space Design Constituent Group homepage (http://www.educause.edu/Community/ConstituentandDiscussionGroups/5983)
The ELI Learning Space Design topic page (http://www.educause.edu/LearningSpace/5521)
The ELI 2005 Fall Focus Session Proceedings (http://www.educause.edu/Proceedings/8993)
The ELI Podcasts page, with a section for all 2005 Fall Focus Session podcasts (http://www.educause.edu/ELIPodcasts/6764)

Interview with Ken Graetz

dianao — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 17:52:17 -0500

To provide additional context for the ELI 2005 Fall Focus Session, I spoke with Dr. Ken Graetz, Director of E-Learning atWinonaStateUniversity . Dr. Graetz has a background in social psychology, with research interests in team and group dynamics, social cognition, and computer-supported collaborative work.

Graetz discusses the impact the learning environment has on the way people think and feel. He also describes way in which the current generation of students truly views virtual spaces as places and the implications that has for teaching and learning.

Learning space design interview with Bill Dittoe

dianao — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 12:38:37 -0500

We had a great program on informal learning space design at our recent focus session, but we also wanted to share with you the perspectives of a few experts who couldn’t present last week in Phoenix. In the attached MP3 file, I discuss learning space design with William Dittoe, the founding member of Educational Facilities Consultants, a firm that helps colleges and universities develop learner-centered designs.

My conversation with Bill focused on three major issues. One was the importance of the shift from an instructor perspective to a student viewpoint in conceptualizing learning spaces, which truly ties the design focus to learning. The second concerned the movement away from an emphasis on individual spaces to thinking about a learning complex in which learning can take place anywhere. And finally, Bill and I discussed the planning process required to bring these and other relevant issues together.

An Interview with Debra G. Smith

mpasiewicz — Fri, 20 May 2005 07:02:00 -0500

In this podcast, we're providng an interview with Debra G. Smith about the benefits and challenges of operating a cost shared IT organization. (Running Time: 7:20)