learning spaces: components of the campus cyberinfrastructure at the institutional level

The JISC/CNI Meeting 2004

Learning Spaces:Components of the Campus

Cyberinfrastructureat the Institutional Level

Joan K. Lippincott

Coalition for Networked Information


Overview

• Scenario - how are users meeting their information and technology needs?

• Cyberinfrastructure - what do we need besides the facility

• Integrated facilities - what kinds of services are incorporated?

• Collaboration - what does it really mean?


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


Scenario:Contemporary American Politics Class

A wired classroom at Emory University


A “SmartClassroom”atNorthwesternUniversity


Continuing Classroom DiscussionOutside the Classroom

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


Wireless connections allow for cooperative projects at Oregon State University


Group Work in the Information Commons

University of Arizona’s

Integrated Learning Center


Emory University’s

Information Commons


University of Southern California’s Leavey Library

Information Commons


Ubiquitous Access to Information

Residence Halls become information access points at Emory University.


“Anywhere, anytime” wireless access to information at the University of Maine’s Farmington campus


Outdoor study space at

Valley City State University in North Dakota


Students Producing Multi-Media Projects

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


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


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


Wellesley College’s

Knapp Media & Technology Center


Students Presenting Projects in Class

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


University of Pittsburgh students present research projects.


What does an institution need?

A cyberinfrastructure, or seamless teaching, learning, and information environment.

• User-centered

• Not silo-centered


“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


Elements of Institutional Cyberinfrastructure

• Digital Content

• People

• Technology

• Physical Space


Digital Content

• Customization and personalization

• Institutional repositories

• Cohesive access to information


People

• Collaboration

• New types of information professionals

• Training

• Information literacy


Technology

• Network infrastructure

• Middleware

• Last mile


Physical Spaces

• Wired classrooms

• Wired social spaces

• Information commons

• Multi-media production studios

• Experimental spaces


Planning should encompass

All types of spaces

Support

Information resources

Technology infrastructure


Large-scale, Integrative Projects

• University of Arizona

• Indiana University

• University of Georgia

• University of Southern California

• 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


USC Leavey Library


USC Leavey Library

• Research and Computing Consultation

• Collaborative workrooms

• Group rooms

• Writing consultation

• Adaptive Technologies Room


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


Common Threads

• Support student learning

• Support individuals and groups

• Offer user-centered, one stop shopping

• Encourage information retrieval and creation


Support student learning

• Multimedia classrooms

• Anywhere, anytime information environment

• Faculty development


Support individuals and groups

• Individual and group workstations

• Group project rooms

• Formal and informal spaces


User-centered, one stop shopping

• Adjacent or combined service points

• Service-oriented, not administratively organized web pages


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


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.”


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


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

learning spaces: components of the campus cyberinfrastructure at the institutional level

Documents

information environment

wireless access

information access points

multimedia projects

wireless connections

cooperative projects

vassars media

variety of projects