Coffee Cups at Hardee

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Coffee Cups at Hardees Black River Falls,
Wisconsin
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Designing Spaces for Teaching and Learning with
Technology

• Patrick Dickson
• Learning, Technology and Culture
• (From Ed Psych to LTC A Long Dialog)
• Michigan State University

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Communication between Researchers and Designers

• Basic versus Applied Research
• Research versus Design
• Cognition versus Art
• Science versus Technology
• New possibilities for tired contrasts.
• Technology pervades higher education.

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Rapid Change Calls for Rapid Research

• The Web Changes Many Things
• Blackboard, WebCT Unprecedented change
• Hardware
• Smaller Laptops or Desktops? Flat Panels.
• Mobility
• Wireless, Longer Battery Life
• Near Universal Ownership at Home

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Changes in TeachingFrom Lecture to Team Work

• Instructional Technology Computing Committee
  From hardware to pedagogy
• We cant teach the way were being told to teach
  in the computer labs the way they are still being
  built on this campus.
• Big Tens CIC
• Great interest in design of learning spaces
• MSU Mid-October

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Online Teaching and LearningNew Possibilities
for Research

• Rapid growth in hybrid courses.
• Students homes and dorms key element.
• Research on students interacting online
• Subjects are coding their own data
• Discussions and chats are self-transcribing
• University computer learning spaces ideal for
  research on design.

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Designing New Learning Spaces

• Leadership Dean Who Gets It
• Make Teaching and Learning Visible
• Where are the computer labs? Basements?
• Windows or walls?
• Incidental learning essential for rapid change.
• Flexibility, Modular, Diverse Niches

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Technology Exploration Center
Technology Exploration Center
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Inner Circle
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Conference Table
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Workstations
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Laptop Lecture Room
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Laptop Lecture Room Open
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Erickson 132
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Library Training Room
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Doctoral Students
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Chicago Botanical Garden
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Where Dissertations Go To Die