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Cole Camplese

7 Things You Should Know About the Modern Learning Commons | EDUCAUSE - 4 views

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psutlt LearningSpaces commons library

shared by Cole Camplese on 26 Apr 11 - No Cached
  • The learning commons, sometimes called an “information commons,” has evolved from a combination library and computer lab into a full-service learning, research, and project space. As a place where students can meet, talk, study, and use “borrowed” equipment, the learning commons brings together the functions of libraries, labs, lounges, and seminar areas in a single community gathering place. The cost of a learning commons can be an obstacle, but for institutions that invest in a sophisticated learning commons, the new and expanded partnerships across disciplines facilitate and promote greater levels of collaboration. The commons invites students to devise their own approaches to their work and to transfer what they learn in one course to the work they do for another.
  • Cole Camplese on 26 Apr 11
     
    This is a critical discussion today and will be more important going forward. If TLT wants to create a vision related to creating the best learning spaces in higher education we need to better understand what is and isn't working.  My emerging goal is to establish a strategic direction that has us look at our spaces on a continuum from very informal to very formal in a consistent and systematic way.
  • Allan Gyorke on 26 Apr 11
     
    The writing process around this particular 7 Things paper was a lot of fun. I got a real sense that what we're doing with the Media Commons spaces, especially plans for the Knowledge Commons and Ritenour are in line with the kinds of spaces being developed at other universities. There was a lot of discussion around the political side of these spaces since the physical space, staffing, and resources don't fall into a neat hierarchy of organizational structure. Anyway, I'd really enjoy being part of a discussion about space design. There are a set of recommendations that the informal learning spaces group generated two years ago that haven't been acted upon. Not that those recommendations are still the right way to go, but it's a starting point for some of the discussion: http://tlt.its.psu.edu/about/reports/2009/Learning-Spaces-Vision.pdf/view
Allan Gyorke

Office of the Executive Vice President and Provost - 4 views

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strategic planning core council resources partners

shared by Allan Gyorke on 06 Oct 11 - No Cached
  • Allan Gyorke on 06 Oct 11
     
    "Core Council Recommendation Letters"
  • Allan Gyorke on 06 Oct 11
     
    Finally - a single place where many of the Core Council letters have been posted. These often contain recommendations such as the need to revise courses or offer more online versions. These units may not know about ways that TLT can help meet the recommendations in their letters. We can go to them with ideas.
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