• Mark Bullen

• Chris Golding

• Lawrence Parisotto

Impetus for Change

• Changing knowledge and skill requirements

• Lifelong learning

• Need for flexible access

• Reduced support for higher education

• Need to improve teaching

Challenges

• e-learning adoption

– Institutional barriers• Funding

• Faculty development

– The value of e-learning

What is E-Learning?

Where to start?

Strategic Model

Vision

“BCIT’s Technology-Enabled Knowledge (TEK) Initiative is about innovation and achieving new standards of excellence in education.”

Project Team Model

• Smart Learning Spaces Project • Learning

environment design that integrates educational technologies with curriculum, pedagogy

Learning Environment projects include

• enhance innovation in teaching and learning • connect BCIT to the

world • equip our learning

spaces with state of the art teaching technologies

Learning Environment goals

Smart learning space types

• innovation studios • smart lecture theatres• smart classrooms• smart computer labs• smart labs• smart shops

Circulating Technologies

• smart carts • smart shop carts • laptop carts• portable

videoconferencing units • “clickers”

Locating smart learning spaces

Wireless Locations

Learning Space Design

Challenge• most current learning spaces

designed before adoption of recent teaching and learning approaches (constructivism, social learning, collaborative learning, etc.)

• installed before presentation, distributed learning and mobile technologies were mainstream

Learning Space Design

Response• emphasis on new approaches to ensure that

learning spaces will be: - innovative, - flexible and - forward-looking to meet current and

future pedagogical and technology approaches

- more reflective of stakeholder needs

• Partnership

• Students

• Applied Research

• Catalytic Projects