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Net Gen Students and Learning Spaces
Joan K. LippincottCoalition for Networked Information
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Net Gen Students and Learning Spaces
• Bringing together themes– Cyberinfrastructure at the institutional level– Student needs and student learning– Organizational collaboration– Expectations for spaces and services
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1. Learning Spaces and Institutional Cyberinfrastructure
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NSF and Cyberinfrastructure“The emerging vision is to use cyberinfrastructure to build more ubiquitous, comprehensive digital environments that become interactive and functionally complete for research communities in terms of people, data, information, tools, and instruments that operate at unprecedented levels of computational, storage, and data transfer capacity.”
Report of the NSF Blue Ribbon Advisory Panel on Cyberinfrastructure
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ACLS Commission on Cyberinfrastructure for the Humanities
and Social Sciences
“Ed Ayers has commented that much of the work of developingthe Valley of the Shadow was analogous to building a printing press when none existed. Effective cyberinfrastructure for the humanities and social sciences will allow scholars to focus their intellectual and scholarly energies on the issues that engage them, and to be effective users of new media and new technologies, rather than having to invent them.”
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Elements of Institutional Cyberinfrastructure
• Digital Content• People• Technology• Physical Space
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Cyberinfrastructure for Earthquake Science
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Digital Content
• Cohesive access to information• Customization and personalization• Institutional repositories• Life cycle of information objects
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People
• Collaboration• New types of information professionals• Training• Information and technology literacy
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Technology
• Network infrastructure• Middleware• Tools• Last mile
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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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2. Learning Spaces for Students
• Deeper learning• Net Gen students• Intersection of Learning and
Cyberinfrastructure• Information literacy/technology fluency
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To promote “deeper” learning
• Active• Contextual• Engaged• Locally owned• Social
• Carmean and Haefner, 2003
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To Meet the Needs of Net Gen Students
• Always connected• Oriented to working in groups• Experiential learners• Visual• Producers as well as consumers
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Deeper Learning Is: Net Gen Students Are:
ACTIVE EXPERIENTIAL
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Engaging students through games
• Serious Games Initiative– Woodrow Wilson International Center for
Scholars– Forge links between electronic games
industry and educational games– Games for education, training, health, and
public policy
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Environmental Detective
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Deeper Learning Is: Net Gen Students Are:
CONTEXTUALLOCALLY OWNED
PRODUCERS & CONSUMERS
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Incremental Learning
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U.Va. Tibetan Buddhist Culture
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Deeper Learning Is: Net Gen Students Are:
ENGAGED VISUAL
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USC Student Project
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British Museum website
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Map Collections “Ticker”
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Deeper Learning Is: Net Gen Students Are:
SOCIAL ALWAYS CONNECTEDGROUP-ORIENTED
Students want libraries where they can have…
“a social, academic experience.”
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Students working together at Dickinson College
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Services for Social Connection
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Intersection of Learning and the Campus
Cyberinfrastructure
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Scenario:Contemporary American Politics Class
A wired classroom at Emory University
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Continuing Classroom DiscussionOutside the Classroom
Students work together at “Jittery Joe’s in the University of Georgia Student Learning Center.
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Wireless connections allow for cooperative projects at Oregon State University
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Group Work in the Information Commons
University of Arizona’sIntegrated Learning Center
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Ubiquitous Access to Information
Residence Halls become information access points at Emory University.
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Outdoor study space atValley City State University in North Dakota
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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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Students Presenting Projects in Class
Dickinson College’s electronic classroom allows students to review a variety of projects.
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Information Literacy
• What about visual literacy?• What do students really know about
information and technology?
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“When people talk to me about theDigital Divide, I think of it not being so much about who has access to what technology as who knows how to create and express themselves in this new language of the screen.”
George Lucas, EDUTOPIA , 2004
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What DO students know about technology and information?
“To say that our students, having grown up with digital media in their homes and in their schools, come to (the university) already equipped with skills and knowledge of information technologies is a misconception.”
McEuen, 2001
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3. Learning Spaces and Collaboration
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University of Arizona’s Integrated Learning Center
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University of ChicagoUSITE/Crerar
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USC Leavey Library
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University of TennesseeThe Studio
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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
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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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4. Common Threads: Expectations for Spaces and
Services
• 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• Support experiential learning• 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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Leavey Library Serves the USC Community as:• A guide to the world of information resources• A focal point for information literacy initiatives for campus and
community• An advocate and model for innovative approaches to teaching,
learning, research• A campus partner for integrating information technology into the
curriculum • A 24-hour center for undergraduate study and scholarly
collaboration
Think of your library as…
an environment rather than a facility – a place of interaction, learning, and experiencing
Tom Findley, 2003
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CNI Activities
• Collaborative Facilities joint website with Dartmouth
• Model facility presentations at Task Force meetings
• Preconferences and presentations• Executive Roundtable• Publications
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Publications
• EDUCAUSE Quarterly article• Chapter in forthcoming EDUCAUSE e-
book on Net Gen students: http://www.educause.edu/educatingthenetgen/
• Article in special issue on collaboration in RSIN
Contact:Joan K. Lippincott
For more information, please visit theCollaborative Facilities Web Site
Sponsored by Dartmouth College and CNIhttp://www.dartmouth.edu/~collab
For information on classroom designNLII Key Theme
http://www.educause.edu/LearningSpace/942