planning collaborative facilities : new spaces and new opportunities

Planning Collaborative Facilities: New Spaces and New Opportunities

EDUCAUSE 2004

Preconference

EDUCAUSE 2004 PreconferenceDenver, CO

Overview

• Learning principles and design principles

• Visions for new learning spaces

• Virtual Tour

• Practical planning for learning spaces


Coalition for Networked Information (CNI)

• Joint project of ARL and EDUCAUSE

• Focus on cross-sector collaboration

• Networked information to advance research and education

• Institutional membership organization

• www.cni.org


Take-aways

• Re-thinking of the vision for your facility(ies)

• Planning template

• Examples and resources

• Informal network of colleagues


Our participants include:

• Information technologists

• Instructional technologists

• Librarians

• Multimedia specialists


Our participants include individuals from:

• Seven Countries

• Many types of educational institutions– Large, research– Small, liberal arts– Community colleges– Technical colleges and institutes


We will include:

• Classroom spaces as well as informal learning spaces, such as libraries, multi-media studios, teaching and learning centers

• Conceptual as well as practical issues

• Presentations and hands-on work


Your interests include:

• Informal learning spaces outside of classrooms

• Designing space that will meet the needs of both faculty and students

• Classroom and information commons projects• Collaboration - with whom and how• How to unify support for users• How to staff learning spaces• How to innovate


Learning Spaces:What Are We Trying To

Accomplish?

Joan K. Lippincott

Coalition for Networked Information


Overview

• Rationale for new spaces

• Virtual tour

• Collaboration

• Vision for learning spaces


Institutions are designing:

• Technology-enabled classrooms

• Technology-rich social spaces

• Information commons

• Multi-media production studios

• Experimental spaces


To promote “deeper” learning

• Active

• Contextual

• Engaged

• Locally owned

• Social• Carmean and Haefner, 2003


To Meet the Needs of Net Gen Students

• Always connected

• Oriented to working in groups

• Experiential learners

• Visual

• Producers as well as consumers


Large-scale, Integrative Projects

• University of Arizona

• Indiana University

• University of Georgia

• Dartmouth

• University of Chicago


University of Arizona’s Integrated Learning Center


University of Arizona’s Integrated Learning Center

• Classrooms

• Discussion rooms

• Information Commons

• Media Resource Center

• Courtyard


Indiana University Information Commons

• Library reference services• IT support and consulting• Check out laptops and video equipment• Multimedia production lab• Training and education classrooms• Adaptive Technology Center• Writing tutorial services• Career reference center


University of GeorgiaStudent Learning Center

• Classrooms

• Advanced learning labs

• Reference service points

• Group study rooms

• Coffee shop


Dartmouth College

Baker-Berry Library


Dartmouth Baker/Berry LibraryLevel 1

• Information Desk• Reference Desk• Computing Help Desk• Computer Sales and Service• Media Production• Faculty Academic Computing Center• Research and Instruction Services• Research and Informatics Learning


University of ChicagoUSITE/Crerar


University of Chicago

• Cybercafe Web Stations

• Apple Multimedia Wall

• Collaborative Booths

• Visualization Classroom and Video-Conferencing Facility

• Teaching Assist. and Computing Asst. Desks


Planning should encompass

All types of spaces

Support

Information resources

Technology infrastructure


University of Southern California’s Leavey Library

Information Commons


Group Work in the Information Commons

University of Arizona’s

Integrated Learning Center


Emory University’s

Information Commons


Ohio University

• Joint project of Library, Computing Services, and University College


NewMediaSuites atUniversityOf Toronto


Students Producing Multi-Media Projects

Students gather to develop a project in Dartmouth College’s Media Center.


University of TennesseeThe Studio


Wellesley College’sKnapp Media & Technology Center


Students and faculty share work space at Vassar’s Media Cloisters.


Will your facility be...

• A glorified computing lab

• A reference area with rows of computers

• Fiefdoms of service points

• A collaborative learning space

• A place to access, use and create information

• A set of transparent services for users

OR


Common Threads for Information Commons

• Support student learning

• Support individuals and groups

• Offer user-centered, one stop shopping

• Encourage information retrieval and creation


Iowa State students share ideas in a design classroom with wireless access.


Students Presenting Projects in Class

Dickinson College’s electronic classroom allows students to review a variety of projects.


A wired classroom at Emory University


Wallenberg Hall - Stanford


3-D Visualization Lab

Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences

(Area: 400 sf)

Photo courtesy of Ellenzweig Associates, Inc. Architects

Harvard University


Movable Table

ProjectionScreen

3-D Visualization Lab

Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences

(Area: 400 sf)

Harvard University

Rendering courtesy of Ellenzweig Associates, Inc. Architects


Continuing Classroom DiscussionOutside the Classroom

Students work together at “Jittery Joe’s in the University of Georgia Student Learning Center.


Ubiquitous Access to Information

Residence Halls become information access points at Emory University.


What’s new for classrooms?

• Impact of wireless - more emphasis on social spaces

• Collaborative technologies - bringing remote groups together

• Students working in informal, ad hoc spaces


What is the reality of working together cross sectors?

• Co-location

• Cooperation

• Collaboration


Co-location

• Adjacent service points for the convenience of users

• Opportunities for informal staff contact cross sectors


Cooperation

• 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


Collaboration

• Develop shared mission and goals

• Joint planning

• Shared governance or administration

• Pool expertise to develop new services

• Each contributes resources

Think clearly about what you want to

accomplish!


Northwestern 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.”


University of WashingtonUwired Principles

• People-centered - the needs and values of people should drive the use of technology.

• Collaborative - collaboration across institutions, units, and disciplines is the most effective way to address the challenges and opportunities created by information technology.

• Experimental - the changes caused by new technologies require us to experiment, evaluate, and innovate.


Leavey Library Serves the USC Community as:

• A guide to the world of information resources• A focal point for information literacy initiatives for campus and

community• An advocate and model for innovative approaches to teaching,

learning, research• A campus partner for integrating information technology into the

curriculum • A 24-hour center for undergraduate study and scholarly

collaboration


Located 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.


Indiana University Information Commons

“Today’s great universities provide access to information that will expand teaching and research. IUTS staff, with their expertise in technology, and Librarians and Library staff, with their expertise in information access, worked together to design the IC with the goal of providing students with the services, tools, and the support they need to succeed academically and to prepare them for careers after graduation.”

Michael McRobbie, VP and CIO


Denison University Learning Spaces Guiding Principles

• Learning spaces should:– Support a diversity of learning styles– Be versatile– Be comfortable and attractive– Are information rich and technologically reliable– Must be maintained continuously– Should be ubiquitous in space and time– Should be used effectively– Must be allocated sufficient resources


Wallenberg 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


What is your vision?

Contact:Joan K. Lippincott

[email protected]

For more information, please visit the

Collaborative Facilities Web Site

Sponsored by Dartmouth College and CNI

http://www.dartmouth.edu/~collab

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