Next Generation Media Services & Educational Spaces

1. Next Generation Media Services & Educational Spaces Workshop Organizers: Kitty Bridges (UMich), Chuck Powell (Yale), Tim Sigmon (UVa), Oren Sreebny (UWash), Dan Updegrove (UT Austin)

2. 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

3. A Round of Introductions • Names • Institutions • Your interest / expertise in Next Generation Media Services & Educational Spaces

4. Re-Envisioning FAC at UT Austin

5. 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

6. “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?

7. 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

8. 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

9. 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

10. 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, …

11. 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

12. 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

13. … sterile … uncomfortable …

14. Not Necessarily!

15. 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?

16. 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?

17. 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

18. 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

19. 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.”

20. 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

21. 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

22. 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?

23. 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

24. 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.”

25. 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

26. 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

27. 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

28. Stanford’s Wallenberg Hall

29. CSG Latest/Greatest Buildings

30. CSG Innovation in the Pipeline