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Multimedia Services: Strategic Assets for Institutional Success

ckeller — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 10:02:09 -0500

This research bulletin surveys the chief components of contemporary multimedia services in colleges and universities and describes some emerging practices for deploying and sustaining them in an increasingly digital and user-centered world. It includes a review of recent experiences in three smaller and two larger institutions. As audio, video, and instructional technologies converge, and as faculty and student expectations for these resources escalate, multimedia services are emerging as the next major arena in which technology and other campus leaders will find their way to standard practices that leverage these strategic assets for institutional success.

High-Velocity Change: Creating Collaborative Learning Environments

drupal — Mon, 18 Jul 2005 17:05:51 -0500

This research bulletin describes how a group of individuals at the University of Kansas worked to design and implement a collaborative learning environment for students, based on theoretical and empirical research along with basic common sense. It discusses the many lessons learned throughout the process and provides recommendations for institutions that are about to embark on a similar voyage.

Campus Learning Spaces: Investing in How Students Learn

drupal — Tue, 12 Apr 2005 09:14:52 -0500

This research bulletin describes the active, visual, collaborative learning processes that an increasing number of university and college students prefer, and it outlines strategies for designing classrooms, libraries, and informal learning spaces that respond to those preferences.