Designing Informal Learning Spaces

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Designing Informal Learning Spaces

• Teaching and Learning Symposium
• May 18, 2005

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If I must study, Im glad I get to do it here!
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We love spending time in the CIMC!

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Thank you for taking the time to clean the
tables! I love it!
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This is my favorite library/place to study
anywhere on campus. The atmosphere is wonderful!
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..if U.S. News World Report also ranked School
of Education Libraries, Im sure the CIMC would
rank 1!
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Strategic directions

• Mission Provide a center for teaching and
  learning that fosters hope, growth, possibility
  and community building.
• Core values
• Model integration of services
• High quality personal service
• Currency in collections and resources
• One-stop shopping for services
• Vital part of the teaching/learning process.
• Joy in the workplace and the work
• Provide a sense of community for the School of
  Education, and informal learning space for
  student cohort groups

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Informal Learning Spaces in Action

• Welcoming atmosphere!
• SoE student union for social learning in cohort
  groups
• Cheerful upbeat staff and exemplary customer
  service
• Lab spaces designed for informal learning
• Lab software designed for SoE
• Library services ref, circ, collections
• Teaching spaces
• Timely display of books and materials

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Strategic Planning and Space Design

• Know your audience and their goals.
• Listen to the voices.
• Faculty, staff, students
• Mirror their values.
• Focus on their learning mission.

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Art at the CIMC

• MFA show Spring 2004
• Space ship lands in the CIMC !"Ellsworth and
  Ellsworth" by Anne Tardos

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A closer look..

• CIMC Virtual Tour

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CIMC Services

• Circulation
• Reference
• Instruction
• Computing labs

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Teaching Spaces

• Art 328, 428, 425, 448, 356
• Curriculum Instruction 514, 603, 674
• Education Leadership Policy Analysis 725, 814
• Outreach Summer programs
• Technology and the Arts, College for Kids, MSPE,
  People Program
• EPortfolio liaisons
• Teaching space as needed

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Lab spaces more context

• Overview of spaces
• Open lab
• Commons area
• Wireless
• Teaching Space
• Coordination of software in SoE
• Printing

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Challenges

• Limited food service
• Limited space as we grow
• less printed material
• increased informal learning spaces
• Inflexible building design
• bricks and cement

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Future directions

• Host library media liaisons
• Full information commons on first floor
• Information outpost in education building
• Redesigned and accessible Circulation Desk
• Plans for a Parenting corner
• Continued connections with the School of
  Education programs and curriculum

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Questions? Comments? Contributions?
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Bibliography

• http//www.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ELI0505.pdf
  
• http//cimc.education.wisc.edu/

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Thank you for coming !

• Jo Ann CarrJim JonasChris Dowling
• Anna LewisCatherine Stephens