ELI_06_LearningSpaces

In conjunction with the 2006 Annual Meeting, ELI asked a few members of the ELI community to pilot enhanced podcasting by developing case studies on model learning spaces. A recent innovation from Apple, enhanced podcasting involves synching images or video with audio files which can then be played on a computer or podcast to a video- or image-enabled iPod via iTunes.

Julie Little of the University of Tennessee-Knoxville contributed an enhanced podcast exploring the planning and development of the university's new Commons. It brings together information and technology resources for easy access by students in a space design that encourages collaboration. (For those without a video- or image-enabled iPod, the file is also available as an audio-only podcast.)

Dan Gilbert of the Stanford Center for Innovations in Learning provided an enhanced podcast highlighting Stanford's Wallenberg Hall. This facility provides learning spaces with multimedia components and flexible furnishings to facilitate interactive teaching and learning.

ELI thanks both Julie and Dan for the great podcast resources they have made available to the ELI community. If you have something similar to contribute, please let us know (jcummings@educause.edu).

In the Fall of 2005, the University of Tennessee, Knoxville's Commonsopened through a collaboration between the Office of InformationTechnology and the University Libraries. My colleagues in the Innovative Technology Center (Dr. Christina Goode, Dr. Michael Burke, Alec Riedl) and I would like to share thestory of Phase I of this project via an enhanced podcast. Stay tuned, asthere will be more to come!If you would like more information on either the Commons or the Innovative Technology Center, please visit their websites:http://commons.utk.edu/http://itc.utk.edu/

Download this audio tour to get a sense of some of the experiences and possibilities at Wallenberg Hall.Wallenberg Hall Website