learning spaces: collaborative spaces for new media

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Learning Spaces:Collaborative Spaces for

New Media

Joan K. Lippincott

Coalition for Networked Information

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Overview

• What are collaborative new media spaces?

• Integrated facilities - what kinds of services are incorporated?

• Collaboration - what does it really mean?

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Coalition for Networked Information (CNI)

• Joint project of ARL and EDUCAUSE

• Focus on cross-sector collaboration

• Networked information to advance research and education

• Institutional membership organization

• www.cni.org

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NewMediaSuites atUniversityOf Toronto

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Group Work in the Information Commons

University of Arizona’s

Integrated Learning Center

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Emory University’s

Information Commons

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Students Producing Multi-Media Projects

Students gather to develop a project in Dartmouth College’s Media Center.

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University of TennesseeThe Studio

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Wellesley College’s

Knapp Media & Technology Center

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Students and faculty share work space at Vassar’s Media Cloisters.

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Iowa State students share ideas in a design classroom with wireless access.

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Students Presenting Projects in Class

Dickinson College’s electronic classroom allows students to review a variety of projects.

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A wired classroom at Emory University

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Physical Spaces

• Wired classrooms

• Wired social spaces

• Information commons

• Multi-media production studios

• Experimental spaces

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Planning should encompass

All types of spaces

Support

Information resources

Technology infrastructure

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Large-scale, Integrative Projects

• University of Arizona

• Indiana University

• University of Georgia

• Dartmouth

• University of Chicago

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University of Arizona’s Integrated Learning Center

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University of Arizona’s Integrated Learning Center

• Classrooms

• Discussion rooms

• Information Commons

• Media Resource Center

• Courtyard

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Indiana University Information Commons

• Library reference services• IT support and consulting• Check out laptops and video equipment• Multimedia production lab• Training and education classrooms• Adaptive Technology Center• Writing tutorial services• Career reference center

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University of GeorgiaStudent Learning Center

• Classrooms

• Advanced learning labs

• Reference service points

• Group study rooms

• Coffee shop

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Dartmouth College

Baker-Berry Library

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Dartmouth Baker/Berry LibraryLevel 1

• Information Desk• Reference Desk• Computing Help Desk• Computer Sales and Service• Media Production• Faculty Academic Computing Center• Research and Instruction Services• Research and Informatics Learning

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University of ChicagoUSITE/Crerar

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University of Chicago

• Cybercafe Web Stations

• Apple Multimedia Wall

• Collaborative Booths

• Visualization Classroom and Video-Conferencing Facility

• Teaching Assist. and Computing Asst. Desks

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Common Threads

• Support student learning

• Support individuals and groups

• Offer user-centered, one stop shopping

• Encourage information retrieval and creation

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Support student learning

• Multimedia classrooms

• Anywhere, anytime information environment

• Faculty development

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Support individuals and groups

• Individual and group workstations

• Group project rooms

• Formal and informal spaces

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User-centered, one stop shopping

• Adjacent or combined service points

• Service-oriented, not administratively organized web pages

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Information retrieval and creation

• Availability of digital and print resources

• Availability of staff to answer questions

• Individual and group workstations for multimedia production

• Consultation on multimedia resource development

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What is the reality of working together cross sectors?

• Co-location

• Cooperation

• Collaboration

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Co-location

• Adjacent service points for the convenience of users

• Opportunities for informal staff contact cross sectors

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Cooperation

• Joint planning for some issues, such as service hours

• Establish understandings to minimize overlap in services and to market services

• Discuss overall services and fill gaps

• Begin to learn about others’ expertise

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Collaboration

• Develop shared mission and goals

• Joint planning

• Shared governance or administration

• Pool expertise to develop new services

• Each contributes resources

Think clearly about what you want to

accomplish!

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Northwestern University 2East

“The 2East Technology Series is intended for faculty who want to take advantage of the teaching and research capabilities of digital media, course management systems, online archives, advanced visualization technologies, electronic journals, and other emerging technologies.”

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Located on the second floor of the Vassar College Main Library, the Media Cloisters is a state-of-the-art space for collaborative learning and the exploration of high end technologies.

The cloisters serves as the "public sphere" for networked interaction, the gathering place for students, professors, and librarians engaged in planning, evaluating, and reviewing the efforts of research and study utilizing the whole range of technologies of literacy. In this way, the Cloisters channels flows of research, learning and teaching between the increasingly networked world of the library and the intimacy and engagement of our classrooms and other campus spaces.

In the Cloisters, course development, class-based projects, and research necessarily become communal, interactive processes, engaging colleagues, students, information specialists, and a networked world of like-minded scholars, artists and media practitioners in active "programming" and explorations.

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What is your vision?

Contact:Joan K. Lippincott

joan@cni.org

For more information, please visit the

Collaborative Facilities Web Site

Sponsored by Dartmouth College and CNI

http://www.dartmouth.edu/~collab