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Classroom of the Future
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With the ever-increasing speed with which new technologies are emerging, planning for the classroom of the future can be difficult. This workshop will provide participants the opportunity to develop a classroom of the future, in collaboration with colleagues from institutions across the Northeast region. Prior to the workshop, participants will be asked to complete a small homework assignment. During the afternoon session attendees will be divided into groups where they will develop a classroom of the future. The session will conclude with presentations of the proposed classrooms.
Homework: Develop a list of the top five things students currently like about the classroom technology on your campus, and a top five list for faculty. Likewise, develop a list of the top five things students currently dislike about the classroom technology on your campus, and a top five list of things faculty dislike. Send along 3 pictures of those particular things you or students might like about a particular learning space.
Workshop Organizer/Host: Ellen Murphy of Plymouth State University
Date/Time:
Friday, October 09, 2009
9:00am - 3:00pm
Registration begins at 8:00am
Location:
Southbridge Hotel and Conference Center
14 Mechanic St.
Southbridge, MA
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Special instructions:
Your fee includes unlimited am and pm break service and lunch.
Pricing:
NERCOMP Members: $127
Non-Members: $252
By clicking on the "Register" button below, you are indicating a commitment to attend and will be held responsible for the registration fee.
Your fee can be refunded if you notify us of a cancellation at least 8 days prior to the event via email to nercomp@nercomp.org.
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Additional Information
Event Schedule:
8:00am - 9:00am Registration & Coffee
9:00am - 10:00am All Designs are Predictions: Classroom Design in a time of Zooming Technology and User Expectations
Speaker: Malcolm Brown, Director of the Educause Learning Initiative
Architects tell us that all designs are predictions. Just what should our classroom designs predict, what should they anticipate in order to be relevant during a era of rapid technology development and perhaps even more rapidly developing user expectations? In this session, we will seek to explore the issues and key considerations associated with classroom design in the NetGen and Web 2.0 era.
10:00am - 10:15am Break
10:15am - 11:15am Learning Spaces 3.0: Designing to Encourage Interaction
Speaker: Andrew Milne, Chief Executive Officer, Tidebreak Inc.
Living in a "2.0" world has changed the way we think about the potential of interactive media. Looking ahead a "3.0" world, we foresee sophisticated, flexible spaces that integrate physical and virtual environments, where collaborative interaction permeates learning activity. What factors will drive the design of these spaces? What are some of the design challenges that will emerge? How can institutions effectively plan and design such spaces to embrace the continual evolution of technology and pedagogy? We will explore answers to these questions and more.
11:15am – 12:00pm Break Out Session
Following a brief discussion, participants will break into groups to begin developing a classroom of the future.
Participants will be taken through the design process, consider various design aspects, and will leave the workshop with techniques and tools they can take back to their respective campuses.
Objectives:
1. What technologies will be used and how will they be integrated into the curriculum?
2. What furniture might be in the classroom, and how might it be placed
3. How might the college change the way it purchases technology and plans allocation of space to meet this challenge?
4. What problems will be solved, or avoided, by the design of this classroom?
5. What elements of infrastructure will need to be taken into consideration?
12:00pm - 1:00pm Lunch
1:00 - 2:00pm Break Out Session: Continues
2:00pm - 3:00pm Regroup
Group will come back together to share their plans and to finish any lingering discussions.
3:00pm Evaluations and End
Speaker:
Andrew Milne
Andrew Milne, Ph.D. is the CEO of Tidebreak, Inc., a global leader in providing interactive workspace technologies for academic institutions and corporate enterprises. Tidebreak is deploying advanced digital technologies that support team-based learning in informal learning spaces (TeamSpot) and redefine the design of interactive technology classrooms (ClassSpot). Tidebreak works with institutions to enable their library learning commons, computer labs, study rooms and flexible classrooms.
Prior to Tidebreak, Andrew spent more than a decade innovating in higher education. He has held positions as educator, researcher, and technology consultant. Using his multi-faceted perspective on teaching, learning, and technology, Andrew has helped lead technology systems planning and design for renovation and new building projects on academic campuses across the United States.
Andrew has participated in the discourse on learning space design and technology in EDUCAUSE Review, a chapter in the ELI e-book on learning spaces, a student input design tool to the ELI Resource Center, and numerous presentations on learning technology topics for EDUCAUSE, Campus Technology, SCUP, EDUCOMM, and other education-oriented conference events.
Andrew is a research partner at Stanford University's Center for Design Research and a Board member at Penn State's Leonhard Center for Enhancing Engineering Education. In addition to his technology-related professional activities, he has taken an active interest in promoting student innovation since 1991, when he founded the Envisioneering program at Penn State.
Andrew holds B.S. (Honors) and M.S. degrees in Mechanical and Electrical Engineering from The Pennsylvania State University. He earned his Ph.D. at the Center for Design Research at Stanford, where his work focused on developing and evaluating pervasive computing collaboration technologies to support distributed engineering design teams.
Speaker:
Malcolm Brown
Malcolm Brown - Prior to assuming the position of director of the ELI, was the Director of Academic Computing at Dartmouth College. His group supported faculty and students the applications of information technology in research and in the curriculum, and oversaw classroom technology. He has worked actively with the ELI, contributing chapters to the ELI eBooks, helping to plan focus sessions, and serving on the ELI Advisory Board. He has been a member of the EDUCAUSE Evolving Technologies committee and is currently on the faculty of the EDUCAUSE Learning Technology Leadership program. He has been on the board for the Horizon Report since its inception in 2004 and served as Chair of Board of the New Medium Consortium. He is currently serving as the editor of the New Horizons column for the EDUCAUSE Review. Malcolm holds a pair of BA degrees from UC Santa Cruz, studied in Freiburg, Germany, on a pair of Fulbright scholarships, and has a PhD in German Studies from Stanford University. He has taught several academic courses on Nietzsche and maintains the Nietzsche Chronicle web site. He is a member of the Frye Institute class of 2002. He has given presentations recently at Duke University, Long Island University, 2008 Educause MARC, Bowdoin College, Coppin State, and the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, Educause Live, and the ELI Fall Focus session.
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Contact Information:
Lisa DiMauro
860-345-2081
ldimauro@nercomp.org
Hotel Information:
Please call the Southbridge Hotel directly at 508.765.8000, the NERCOMP rate is $120.
The room block will be held until September 8, 2009.
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