Learning Spaces: Collaborations and Opportunities

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Learning SpacesCollaborations and Opportunities

• Joan K. Lippincott
• Coalition for Networked Information

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Learning Spaces and CNI

• Bringing together themes
• Cyberinfrastructure at the institutional level
• Student needs and student learning
• Organizational collaboration
• Activities and future directions

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1. Learning Spaces and Institutional
Cyberinfrastructure
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NSF and Cyberinfrastructure

• The emerging vision is to use
  cyberinfrastructure to build more ubiquitous,
  comprehensive digital environments that become
  interactive and functionally complete for
  research communities in terms of people, data,
  information, tools, and instruments that operate
  at unprecedented levels of computational,
  storage, and data transfer capacity.
• Report of the NSF Blue Ribbon Advisory
  Panel on Cyberinfrastructure

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ACLS Commission on Cyberinfrastructure for the
Humanities and Social Sciences
Ed Ayers has commented that much of the work of
developing the Valley of the Shadow was analogous
to building a printing press when none existed.
Effective cyberinfrastructure for the humanities
and social sciences will allow scholars to focus
their intellectual and scholarly energies on the
issues that engage them, and to be effective
users of new media and new technologies, rather
than having to invent them.
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Elements of Institutional Cyberinfrastructure

• Digital Content
• People
• Technology
• Physical Space

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Cyberinfrastructure for Earthquake Science
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Digital Content

• Cohesive access to information Customization and
  personalization
• Institutional repositories
• Life cycle of information objects

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People

• Collaboration
• New types of information professionals
• Training
• Information and technology literacy

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Technology

• Network infrastructure
• Middleware
• Tools
• Last mile

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Physical Spaces

• Wired classrooms
• Wired social spaces
• Information commons
• Multi-media production studios
• Experimental spaces

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Planning should encompass

• All types of spaces
• Support
• Information resources
• Technology infrastructure

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2. Learning Spaces for Students

• Student needs
• Deeper learning
• Net Gen students
• Access to and production of information
• Information literacy/technology fluency

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To promote deeper learning

• Active
• Contextual
• Engaged
• Locally owned
• Social
• Carmean and Haefner, 2003

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To Meet the Needs of Net Gen Students

• Always connected
• Oriented to working in groups
• Experiential learners
• Visual
• Producers as well as consumers

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USC Student Project
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Incremental Learning
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Intersection of Learning and the Campus
Cyberinfrastructure
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ScenarioContemporary American Politics Class

• A wired classroom at Emory University

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Continuing Classroom DiscussionOutside the
Classroom

• Students work together at Jittery Joes in the
  University of Georgia Student Learning Center.

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• Wireless connections allow for cooperative
  projects at Oregon State University

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Group Work in the Information Commons

• University of Arizonas
• Integrated Learning Center

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Ubiquitous Access to Information

• Residence Halls become information access points
  at Emory University.

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• Outdoor study space at
• Valley City State University in North Dakota

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Students Producing Multi-Media Projects

• Students gather to develop a project in
  Dartmouth Colleges Media Center.

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Students Presenting Projects in Class

• Dickinson Colleges electronic classroom allows
  students to review a variety of projects.

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Information Literacy

• What about visual literacy?
• What do students really know about information
  and technology?

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When people talk to me about the Digital Divide,
I think of it not being so much about who has
access to what technology as who knows how to
create and express themselves in this new
language of the screen. George Lucas, EDUTOPIA
, 2004
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What DO students know about technology and
information?
To say that our students, having grown up with
digital media in their homes and in their
schools, come to (the university) already
equipped with skills and knowledge of information
technologies is a misconception. McEuen, 2001
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3. Learning Spaces and Collaboration
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University of Arizonas Integrated Learning
Center
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University of ChicagoUSITE/Crerar
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USC Leavey Library

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University of TennesseeThe Studio
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Co-location

• Adjacent service points for the convenience of
  users
• Opportunities for informal staff contact cross
  sectors

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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

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Collaboration

• Develop shared mission and goals
• Joint planning
• Shared governance or administration
• Pool expertise to develop new services
• Each contributes resources

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Common Threads

• Support student learning
• Support individuals and groups
• Offer user-centered, one stop shopping
• Encourage information retrieval and creation

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Support student learning

• Multimedia classrooms
• Anywhere, anytime information environment
• Faculty development

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Support individuals and groups

• Individual and group workstations
• Group project rooms
• Formal and informal spaces

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User-centered, one stop shopping

• Adjacent or combined service points
• Service-oriented, not administratively organized
  web pages

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Information retrieval and creation

• Availability of digital and print resources
• Availability of staff to answer questions
• Individual and group workstations for multimedia
  production
• Consultation on multimedia resource development

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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.
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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.
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Wallenberg Hall - Stanford
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Harvard University

• 3-D Visualization Lab
• Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences
• (Area 400 sf)
• Photo courtesy of Ellenzweig Associates, Inc.
  Architects

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Harvard University

• 3-D Visualization Lab
• Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences
• (Area 400 sf)
• Rendering courtesy of Ellenzweig Associates, Inc.
  Architects

Projection Screen
Movable Table

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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

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CNI Activities

• Collaborative Facilities joint website with
  Dartmouth
• Model facility presentations at Task Force
  meetings
• Preconferences and presentations
• Executive Roundtable
• Publications

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Publications

• EDUCAUSE Quarterly article
• Chapter in forthcoming EDUCAUSE e-book on Net Gen
  students
• Article in special issue on collaboration in RSIN

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Executive Roundtable
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Collaborators

• EDUCAUSE NLII
• New Media Consortium
• ACRL
• NITLE/PKAL

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Next Steps?
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ContactJoan K. Lippincottjoan_at_cni.org

• For more information, please visit the
• Collaborative Facilities Web Site
• Sponsored by Dartmouth College and CNI
• http//www.dartmouth.edu/collab
• For information on classroom design
• NLII Key Theme
• http//www.educause.edu/LearningSpace/942