Hi Internet! The students of CI598 in Spring 2012 would like to give you an assignment. We will be asking you to attend various learning spaces on your campus to better understand the affordances of these spaces related to teaching and learning. We are calling this movement “Occupy Learning.”
Over time we will collect from you, Internet, small reports on spaces on your campuses. The goal is to produce artifacts that contain text, digital images, audio, and video into blog posts all across the Internet. Here are two examples:
Your contribution to this project can follow the criteria below, but feel free to be creative as you work towards your own Occupy Learning artifact.
- Title: University Name, Name of Building, and Room Number
- Top Summary: Select the 3-5 most important constraints and affordances about the teaching and learning space to highlight.
- Background/History/Location: Including, but not limited to, providing detail about the building in which the learning space is found (location on campus and history of construction or renovation). Provide detail concerning how the learning space is primarily used (ex science lecture hall).
- Physical Layout: The overall landscape of the room, including the furniture and fixtures.
- Description
- Impact on Learning and Teaching
- Classroom Ambiance: Environmental and intangible elements such as temperature, light, air quality, noise, smells, etc.
- Description
- Impact on Learning and Teaching
- User Experience: Describe affordances (opportunities & challenges) for teaching and learning activities and interactions; when possible incorporate comments related to actual scenarios from students, professors, and observers.
- Description
- Impact on Learning and Teaching
- Technology: The space includes a wifi network to accommodate mobile devices and/or offers computing devices such as desktop computers or laptops.
- Description
- Impact on Learning and Teaching
- Unexpected Phenomena: What about the physical layout of the room or activities within the space that surprised you?
- Improvement Ideas: Share thoughts on how your team might improve the design given the realities of the space.
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Michele M Crowl says
Top Summary
Select the 3-5 most important points about the learning space to highlight.
Laura March says
Ambiance: Environmental and intangible elements such as temperature, light, air quality, noise, smells, etc.
MARY JAYNE COON-KITT says
physical layout: the room layout, furniture and fixtures.
JULIE FREAR SCHAPPE says
User Experience: Describe affordances (opportunities & challenges) for teaching and learning activities and interactions; when possible incorporate comments related to actual scenarios from students, professors, and observers.
DANIEL JOSEPH MENDENHALL says
Background/History/Location: Including, but not limited to, providing detail about the building in which the learning space is found (location on campus and history of construction or renovation). Provide detail concerning how the learning space is primarily used (ex science lecture hall).
Phil Tietjen says
Technology: The space includes a wifi network to accommodate mobile devices and/or offers computing devices such as desktop computers or laptops.