Next Generation Media Services & Educational Spaces

Workshop Organizers: Kitty Bridges (UMich), Chuck Powell (Yale), Tim Sigmon (UVa), Oren Sreebny (UWash), Dan Updegrove (UT Austin)

Agenda

09:00 Educational Spaces Overview 10:30 Ed Spaces Panel 12:00 Lunch 01:00 Software Spaces 03:00 Media Services 05:00 Adjourn 06:00 IST Building Tour or cocktails 07:00 Dinner, Nittany Lion Inn

A Round of Introductions

Names Institutions Your interest / expertise in Next

Generation Media Services & Educational Spaces

Re-Envisioning FAC at UT Austin

FAC’s Past as the Undergrad Lib

Built in early 60s when main library was in the tower Small subset of

books, journals, refs Reserve readings UG-focused reference

librarians Space for solo &

group study PCL, in early 70s,

undercut mission 1990s: PCs, Internet,

WWW, search

“No more books in the UGL”

Do we assume that students don’t want or need libraries in the age of Google, IM, laptops & wireless?

Is UT abandoning commitment to supporting UG teaching & learning?

What will become of the books? What will become of the staff? What will become of the large

building in the center of campus?

FAC Today

Academy of Distinguished Teachers

Accessibility Institute Computer Writing &

Research Lab Connexus: Connections in

Undergraduate Studies General Faculty, Office of IT, Office of the VP DIIA Liberal Arts Council SMF Texas Success Initiative Undergraduate Library Undergrad Writing Center

FAC’s Future

Re-focus on UG teaching & learning 1st ~ More technology, ID Ctr 2nd ~ Help desk & Student Micro Ctr;

Few changes initially 3rd ~ Last 90K books will free 6K sq ft;

relocate Ctr for Instructional Tech 4th floor: IT School faculty, classrms

Fund raising campaign needed

FAC Re-envisioning Process

Visiting Other Campuses Cmte of stakeholders, including

students Iterative renovation as funds

become available Learning from experiments Potential exemplar for PCL

Next Gen Educational Spaces

Old model: Classrooms, libraries, student unions, dorms

New model: Media-equipped classrooms, team study spaces, Information Commons / Media Unions / Digital Unions, ResNets, Wireless quads, …

Campus Computing 2004

Instructional integration of IT ranked 2nd

Other key issues: Security, ERP 76% classes use email; 52% electronic

presentations; 19% simulations 83% classrooms are wired Wireless: 20% full campus; 36% classrms (34% routinely assess instr svcs/pgms)

www.campuscomputing.net

Can We Change the Paradigm?

“’Among the many methods employed to foster student development, the use of physical space is perhaps the least understood and most neglected.’ Faculty and student alike have become so accustomed to meeting in space that is sterile in appearance, unable to accommodate different instructional approaches, and uncomfortable for supporting adult bodies that the have taken these conditions as a fact of college life.” – Chism & Bickford, The Importance of Physical Space in Creating Supportive Learning Environments, 2002

… sterile … uncomfortable …

Not Necessarily!

Some Questions

What defines Next Gen? How do we integrate new IT into

campus facilities “built for the ages? What role for the CIO organization? How do we track – and assess –

what’s being tried and what works? How might we collaborate on this?

What defines “Next Gen?”

Accommodate new IT? Accommodate new pedagogy? Accommodate new learning styles? Attracts best & brightest? Attracts new capital - & operating -

funds? Contributes measurably to learning

outcomes?

Does this matter?

“Today’s students learn differently than did many of the faculty now teaching them, and the design of learning spaces can favor or disadvantage various ways of learning.”

-- Acker & Miller, Campus Learning Spaces: Investing in How Students Learn, ECAR, 2005

Stat 135 @ OSU

Students divided by learning style Prefer lecture Prefer small group discussion Prefer independent, online learning

Different teaching methods & space configurations Grades up 0.5 std deviations Dropouts reduced: 20% -> 12% Cost/student reduced: $190 > $142

The New Library?

“As libraries [transform] space, … tempting to build more traditional group study rooms with fixed walls. … Open office systems and movable walls with easy access to white boards, presentation technology, power, and wireless networking should do better over time in adapting to changing technology & learning styles.”

Stanford’s TeamSpace

Typical undergraduates spend more time in public spaces than class, and thus increasingly need pervasive computing. Stanford's TeamSpace offers a new model for public, interactive work space. TeamSpace provides laptop users with shared control of two LCD displays and drag-and-drop file sharing. During the pilot, students found TeamSpace intuitive and helpful for collaboration.

Futey & Holeton, ELI, 2005 http://www.educause.edu/LibraryDetailPage/666?

ID=NLI0502

IT … “Built for the Ages”

New building/renovation process A vision or a donor … or a catastrophe Assembling the stakeholders A design and a budget Value engineering Construction & outfitting The punch list Occupancy & mutual learning

The Challenge of Generations

Buildings: 40-100 years Families: 20-50 years IT: 2-3 years How do we inject the possibilities of

IT into the project visioning, design, budget process?

And what role for the CIO?

New ECAR Study

Information Technology and Campus Facility Planning Catherine Finnegan, Board of Regents,

University System of Georgia Tom Maier, Board of Regents,

University System of Georgia Vol 2005, No. 10, May 10, 2005

IT & Campus Facility Planning

“The planning challenge is to provide a learning environment in which the values inherent in traditional instruction continue to be fostered, as distance and other learning technologies enable new opportunities and universal access. Because CIOs are expected to provide and maintain the infrastructure and connectivity necessary to meet this challenge, it is imperative that they also be involved in planning for new building construction and existing building renovation.”

Literature Not Much Help

“Despite the obvious connection between building planning and technology infrastructure, … surprising lack of integration between technology and facilities management.

Most literature focused on two areas: How IT changes building use Specific building case studies

3 Key Success Factors

Vision for building (renovation) identified during conceptualization & design stages – shared by administrators, occupants, planners, architects, construction mgrs

Based on vision, team determined best way to accommodate key functions, often in innovative ways

Communications channels remained open, even after building was designed

Opportunities for Collaboration?

We’re all engaged in this process Mistakes are costly – and take years

to undo A picture is worth … a lot PPT, video, visits Thanks to Penn State for today’s ITT

Building Tour

Stanford’s Wallenberg Hall

CSG Latest/Greatest BuildingsBrown List Art Bldg; Grad Center URL

Colorado Humanities Bldg

Columbia Law/Business/Warren Hall

Dartmouth Library / Data Center

Georgetown Preclin Sci; Lib NMC; Nursing & Health Sciences

Harvard Sever Hall; Science Ctr; Lamont Lib Lng Res Center URL

Maryland VMH

Michigan Duderstadt Center

Minnesota Walter Library; Video Wall; Supercomputing URL

Princeton Woodrow Wilson School URL

Stanford Gates CS Bldg; Wallenberg Hall; Meyer Lib

Texas Applied Computational Engineering & Sciences Bldg

Virginia Darden GSB

Washington Mary Gates Hall

CSG Innovation in the PipelineBrown

Colorado Atlas Building

Columbia

Dartmouth

Georgetown

Harvard Ctr for Gov & Int’l Studies

Maryland Information Commons (MMIC)

Michigan North Quad: Residence Halls + Information School

Minnesota

Princeton Science Library

Stanford iwork.stanford.edu

Texas Blanton Museum of Art; FAC Info Commons

Virginia

Washington

Yale