Instructional Technology
Conference 2007
Title: The Convergence of Space, Tme and Technology
Name: Mr. Mark Valenti, Mr. Brian Patrick
Audience Level: all
Audience: faculty, presidents/CIO/CTO, provosts, deans, librarians, instructional technology specialists, lab directors, facility planners, facility managers, general
Length: 1 hour
Abstract:
The revolution of the learning space is here, thanks to new technologies, innovative applications and pedagogy, and the realization of the modern student. Learning spaces require integrated design that unites architecture, furnishings, lighting, acoustics, and space planning with instructional technologies. Student skills drive the need for increased access to media-rich information, audiovisual display, collaboration, and alternative delivery. Learn the questions to ask your designers and technology solution providers when crafting an ever-changing learning environment.
Description:
Universities are realizing that the old model of the campus as a ‘mainframe’ is being replaced by the campus as a ‘network’. Students are no longer forced to flock to giant classrooms and sit thorough hours of impersonal lecture to learn within almost every field of study. Not only are most campuses reaching out to the once-marginalized student, but they are building new and renovating old spaces to meet the needs of modern learners and use technology to create fresh instructional paradigms. This session will highlight many types of new learning spaces and how they work, including collaborative computing, informal group study, team-based learning, and other student-centered and student led learning spaces.
The proper application of technologies to support learning such as visual display, digital recording/streaming/archiving, distance learning, software tools, networking, wireless, voting, simulation, and visualization will be discussed. The attendee will gain understanding of the key criteria that can frame the design of a new learning space, and learn what to ask when interviewing potential technology designers. Examples for how certain modern and emerging technologies impact both facility design and maintenance/technical support will be given.
Learn why many schools are abandoning the large lecture hall approach for functional and fiscal reasons, while other institutions that build lecture space are doing it in a completely different way with an eye toward the future. Brief case studies of new learning spaces that do not fit traditional conventions will be presented for discussion.
Session Type: Lecture/Presentation
Contact information/affiliation:
Mr. Mark Valenti
President
The Sextant Group, Inc.
Riverside Center for Innovation
730 River Avenue, Suite 600
Pittsburgh, PA 15212
voice: 412.323.8580 x222
fax: 412.323.8538
mobile: 412.680.9805
mvalenti@TheSextantGroup.com
Mr. Brian Patrick, CTS-D
Senior Consultant
The Sextant Group, Inc.
Southeast Regional Office
324 St. Paul Avenue SE
Atlanta GA 30312\
voice: 404.529.9714
fax: 404.529.9731
mobile: 404.931.8800
bpatrick@thesextantgroup.com