Title: Learning Spaces: Collaborations and Opportunities
1Learning SpacesCollaborations and Opportunities
- Joan K. Lippincott
- Coalition for Networked Information
2Learning Spaces and CNI
- Bringing together themes
- Cyberinfrastructure at the institutional level
- Student needs and student learning
- Organizational collaboration
- Activities and future directions
31. Learning Spaces and Institutional
Cyberinfrastructure
4NSF and Cyberinfrastructure
- The emerging vision is to use
cyberinfrastructure to build more ubiquitous,
comprehensive digital environments that become
interactive and functionally complete for
research communities in terms of people, data,
information, tools, and instruments that operate
at unprecedented levels of computational,
storage, and data transfer capacity. - Report of the NSF Blue Ribbon Advisory
Panel on Cyberinfrastructure
5ACLS Commission on Cyberinfrastructure for the
Humanities and Social Sciences
Ed Ayers has commented that much of the work of
developing the Valley of the Shadow was analogous
to building a printing press when none existed.
Effective cyberinfrastructure for the humanities
and social sciences will allow scholars to focus
their intellectual and scholarly energies on the
issues that engage them, and to be effective
users of new media and new technologies, rather
than having to invent them.
6Elements of Institutional Cyberinfrastructure
- Digital Content
- People
- Technology
- Physical Space
7Cyberinfrastructure for Earthquake Science
8Digital Content
- Cohesive access to information Customization and
personalization - Institutional repositories
- Life cycle of information objects
9People
- Collaboration
- New types of information professionals
- Training
- Information and technology literacy
10Technology
- Network infrastructure
- Middleware
- Tools
- Last mile
11Physical Spaces
- Wired classrooms
- Wired social spaces
- Information commons
- Multi-media production studios
- Experimental spaces
12Planning should encompass
- All types of spaces
- Support
- Information resources
- Technology infrastructure
132. Learning Spaces for Students
- Student needs
- Deeper learning
- Net Gen students
- Access to and production of information
- Information literacy/technology fluency
14To promote deeper learning
- Active
- Contextual
- Engaged
- Locally owned
- Social
- Carmean and Haefner, 2003
15To Meet the Needs of Net Gen Students
- Always connected
- Oriented to working in groups
- Experiential learners
- Visual
- Producers as well as consumers
16USC Student Project
17Incremental Learning
18Intersection of Learning and the Campus
Cyberinfrastructure
19ScenarioContemporary American Politics Class
- A wired classroom at Emory University
20Continuing Classroom DiscussionOutside the
Classroom
- Students work together at Jittery Joes in the
University of Georgia Student Learning Center.
21- Wireless connections allow for cooperative
projects at Oregon State University
22Group Work in the Information Commons
- University of Arizonas
- Integrated Learning Center
23Ubiquitous Access to Information
- Residence Halls become information access points
at Emory University.
24- Outdoor study space at
- Valley City State University in North Dakota
25Students Producing Multi-Media Projects
- Students gather to develop a project in
Dartmouth Colleges Media Center.
26Students Presenting Projects in Class
- Dickinson Colleges electronic classroom allows
students to review a variety of projects.
27Information Literacy
- What about visual literacy?
- What do students really know about information
and technology?
28When people talk to me about the Digital Divide,
I think of it not being so much about who has
access to what technology as who knows how to
create and express themselves in this new
language of the screen. George Lucas, EDUTOPIA
, 2004
29What DO students know about technology and
information?
To say that our students, having grown up with
digital media in their homes and in their
schools, come to (the university) already
equipped with skills and knowledge of information
technologies is a misconception. McEuen, 2001
303. Learning Spaces and Collaboration
31 32University of Arizonas Integrated Learning
Center
33University of ChicagoUSITE/Crerar
34USC Leavey Library
35 36University of TennesseeThe Studio
37Co-location
- Adjacent service points for the convenience of
users - Opportunities for informal staff contact cross
sectors
38Cooperation
- Joint planning for some issues, such as service
hours - Establish understandings to minimize overlap in
services and to market services - Discuss overall services and fill gaps
- Begin to learn about others expertise
39Collaboration
- Develop shared mission and goals
- Joint planning
- Shared governance or administration
- Pool expertise to develop new services
- Each contributes resources
40Common Threads
- Support student learning
- Support individuals and groups
- Offer user-centered, one stop shopping
- Encourage information retrieval and creation
41Support student learning
- Multimedia classrooms
- Anywhere, anytime information environment
- Faculty development
42Support individuals and groups
- Individual and group workstations
- Group project rooms
- Formal and informal spaces
43User-centered, one stop shopping
- Adjacent or combined service points
- Service-oriented, not administratively organized
web pages
44Information retrieval and creation
- Availability of digital and print resources
- Availability of staff to answer questions
- Individual and group workstations for multimedia
production - Consultation on multimedia resource development
45Northwestern University 2East The 2East
Technology Series is intended for faculty who
want to take advantage of the teaching and
research capabilities of digital media, course
management systems, online archives, advanced
visualization technologies, electronic journals,
and other emerging technologies.
46Located on the second floor of the Vassar College
Main Library, the Media Cloisters is a
state-of-the-art space for collaborative learning
and the exploration of high end technologies.
The cloisters serves as the "public sphere" for
networked interaction, the gathering place for
students, professors, and librarians engaged in
planning, evaluating, and reviewing the efforts
of research and study utilizing the whole range
of technologies of literacy. In this way, the
Cloisters channels flows of research, learning
and teaching between the increasingly networked
world of the library and the intimacy and
engagement of our classrooms and other campus
spaces. In the Cloisters, course development,
class-based projects, and research necessarily
become communal, interactive processes, engaging
colleagues, students, information specialists,
and a networked world of like-minded scholars,
artists and media practitioners in active
"programming" and explorations.
47Wallenberg Hall - Stanford
48Harvard University
- 3-D Visualization Lab
- Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences
- (Area 400 sf)
- Photo courtesy of Ellenzweig Associates, Inc.
Architects
49Harvard University
- 3-D Visualization Lab
- Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences
- (Area 400 sf)
- Rendering courtesy of Ellenzweig Associates, Inc.
Architects
Projection Screen
Movable Table
50Wallenberg Hall - Stanford
- Enable the sharing of experience and knowledge in
the use of modern technology in education. - Experiment with technology in real courses
- Partner with others to innovate and disseminate
approaches worldwide
51CNI Activities
- Collaborative Facilities joint website with
Dartmouth - Model facility presentations at Task Force
meetings - Preconferences and presentations
- Executive Roundtable
- Publications
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55Publications
- EDUCAUSE Quarterly article
- Chapter in forthcoming EDUCAUSE e-book on Net Gen
students - Article in special issue on collaboration in RSIN
56Executive Roundtable
57Collaborators
- EDUCAUSE NLII
- New Media Consortium
- ACRL
- NITLE/PKAL
58Next Steps?
59ContactJoan K. Lippincottjoan_at_cni.org
- For more information, please visit the
- Collaborative Facilities Web Site
- Sponsored by Dartmouth College and CNI
- http//www.dartmouth.edu/collab
- For information on classroom design
- NLII Key Theme
- http//www.educause.edu/LearningSpace/942