Net Gen Students and Learning Spaces

TRLN Information Commons SymposiumFebruary 23, 2005

Net Gen Students and Learning Spaces

Joan K. LippincottCoalition for Networked Information


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


1. Learning Spaces and Institutional Cyberinfrastructure


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


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.”


Elements of Institutional Cyberinfrastructure

• Digital Content• People• Technology• Physical Space


Cyberinfrastructure for Earthquake Science


Digital Content

• Cohesive access to information• Customization and personalization• Institutional repositories• Life cycle of information objects


People

• Collaboration• New types of information professionals• Training• Information and technology literacy


Technology

• Network infrastructure• Middleware• Tools• Last mile


Physical Spaces

• Wired classrooms• Wired social spaces• Information commons• Multi-media production studios• Experimental spaces


Planning should encompass

– All types of spaces– Support– Information resources– Technology infrastructure


2. Learning Spaces for Students

• Deeper learning• Net Gen students• Intersection of Learning and

Cyberinfrastructure• Information literacy/technology fluency


To promote “deeper” learning

• Active• Contextual• Engaged• Locally owned• Social

• Carmean and Haefner, 2003


To Meet the Needs of Net Gen Students

• Always connected• Oriented to working in groups• Experiential learners• Visual• Producers as well as consumers


Deeper Learning Is: Net Gen Students Are:

ACTIVE EXPERIENTIAL


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


Environmental Detective



CONTEXTUALLOCALLY OWNED

PRODUCERS & CONSUMERS


Incremental Learning


U.Va. Tibetan Buddhist Culture



ENGAGED VISUAL


USC Student Project


British Museum website


Map Collections “Ticker”



SOCIAL ALWAYS CONNECTEDGROUP-ORIENTED

Students want libraries where they can have…

“a social, academic experience.”


Students working together at Dickinson College


Services for Social Connection


Intersection of Learning and the Campus

Cyberinfrastructure


Scenario:Contemporary American Politics Class

A wired classroom at Emory University


Continuing Classroom DiscussionOutside the Classroom

Students work together at “Jittery Joe’s in the University of Georgia Student Learning Center.


Wireless connections allow for cooperative projects at Oregon State University


Group Work in the Information Commons

University of Arizona’sIntegrated Learning Center


Ubiquitous Access to Information

Residence Halls become information access points at Emory University.


Outdoor study space atValley City State University in North Dakota


Students Producing Multi-Media Projects

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


Students Presenting Projects in Class

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


Information Literacy

• What about visual literacy?• What do students really know about

information and technology?


“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


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


3. Learning Spaces and Collaboration



University of Arizona’s Integrated Learning Center


University of ChicagoUSITE/Crerar


USC Leavey Library



University of TennesseeThe Studio


Co-location

• Adjacent service points for the convenience of users

• Opportunities for informal staff contact cross sectors


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


Collaboration

• Develop shared mission and goals• Joint planning• Shared governance or administration• Pool expertise to develop new services• Each contributes resources


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.”


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


Support student learning

• Multimedia classrooms• Anywhere, anytime information

environment• Support experiential learning• Faculty development


Support individuals and groups

• Individual and group workstations• Group project rooms• Formal and informal spaces


User-centered, one stop shopping

• Adjacent or combined service points• Service-oriented, not administratively

organized web pages


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


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


CNI Activities

• Collaborative Facilities joint website with Dartmouth

• Model facility presentations at Task Force meetings

• Preconferences and presentations• Executive Roundtable• Publications





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

[email protected]

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

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




Documents

Net Gen Students and Learning Spaces