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The 21st Century Classroom
Incubating Next-Gen.Edu
6/1/2008
"It really opened the eyes of many of our staff," says Danielson. "We had librarians with 30 years of service behind them, who were all of a sudden embracing new ways of doing things."
AMONG THE EXPERIMENTAL classroom spaces at SCU are group study rooms where students can project collaborative work on-screen.
Now, he adds, "As we begin to remodel other buildings on campus, some of those lessons will go into the design of those spaces, as well." What he's really hoping, he emphasizes, is that faculty will begin to think differently about the kinds of classroom spaces they want and need. He's also anticipating that exposure to the new equipment and flexible structures will lead to broader adoption and experimentation elsewhere on campus.
UC-Riverside's Schouest crystallizes that aspiration: "The success of any incubator is the portability of the technology outside of it," he explains "Just because you have something in an incubator, can it port to a general use environment? Once it's no longer being incubated, it has to be productive."
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Don't miss these sessions and workshops
at Campus Technology 2008:
- 21st Century Learning Spaces: Making Your Dreams Come True
- Driving Research in Technology and Pedagogy: Faculty in the Incubator Classroom
- Next-Gen Classroom Model: Emory University's (GA) Cox Center
- The Learning Commons: Next-Gen Learning Spaces for the New Way Students Work
Dian Schaffhauser is a writer who covers technology and business. Send your higher education technology news to her at dian@dischaffhauser.com.
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