Technology Enabled Educational Spaces at MIT( just-in-time presentation)

Phil Long, Vijay Kumar

MIT

CSG, Penn State, May 11 2005

Educational Motivation

• Active Learning ( TEAL)

• CDIO ( A/A)

• Clusters to Collaborations Spaces

Assessment Dimensions

• User

• Educational Value

• Formal Vs Non Formal

MIT Physics Classroom

Room Usage by Work Interval Over a Semester

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Week of Semester

Student Credit Hours

11 to 9

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Figure 3. Room usage for academic coursework over the first 5 weeks of the term. Crawley, E., & Immrich, S., (2004), Process for Designing Learning Spaces, Case Study: the MIT Learning Lab for Complex Systems, presentation to NLII Learning Systems Design Workshop.

Aero-Astro - Guggenheim Lab - Course 16

Community Building Knowledge Discovery

System Building Reinforcing Disciplinary Knowledge

EDUCATION MODES

Authentic Learning in Architecture

STUDIO

MIT

Collaboration Spaces in Clusters

Theme: Soft Spaces

Then

Now

Residential IT Enablement Projects• Laptop Internal Support - Assess the value & viability of peer-to-peer support; locally

controlled IT services with central coordination

• iDorm - Communicate residence hall cultures to entering freshmen; engage residents and prospectives in community activity.

• Displays and Keyboardsin dorm clusters - Provide for collaborative use of laptops in existing student computing spaces in residence halls

• Digital Cable - Showcase HDTV both w/boxes and w/PC cablecards• Peripheral proxy - Shared peripheral devices for laptop users accessible via software

• Collaborative Video Display Space - Shared collaborative work space(s) in residence halls

• Online Collaboration Spaces - Provide a wiki for on-going capture of ideas, student / staff collaboration, and knowledge capture for the residential community, IS&T, and HM's

Issues and Directions• Pre Configured to Ad Hoc

• Service and Support for mobility– Content repositories– Delivering software to student devices

• Sustainability

• Research to enterprise transition

• Assessment

• Next Gen inputs for the next gen environments