Presenting Core Team Members

Lisa Stephens Senior Strategist, SUNY Academic Innovation

Joseph MoreauVice Chancellor, Technology-Foothill De Anza CC District

Brad SnyderAssociate Director, Campus Technology Services, SUNY Cortland

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Vision and Mission

Vision:A comprehensive, highly searchable, open access, peer-reviewed learning space repository.

Mission:Build a robust, high performance community tool that shares learning environment data to save time, money and effort, and provide a source of best practice models.

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Founding Partners & Sponsors

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Herman Miller

Community Value

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Community Value

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Community Value

• Provide ROI examples of peer solutions• Decrease the facilities planning-to-construction time cycle• Encourage consistent terminology across stakeholder

groups:

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Facilities Planners Architects Faculty Instructional Design & Faculty Support Senior/Executive Administration Information Technologists

Community Value

• Demonstrate a variety of ways to capture/“flip” content Course Capture Tutorial Applications Developmental Education Modules

• Encourage experimentation and adoption of emerging models:

Maker Spaces & “Fab Labs” Active Learning Classrooms Support of Gaming, Simulation and Immersive

Environments

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Community Value

• Integrated with other national efforts Learning Space Rating System: quantitative guidance in

for planning and post-occupancy evaluation

• Cross linked to other important resources: NCSU Scale-Up Learning Space Toolkit Journal of Learning Spaces FLEXspace Founding Organizational Websites

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Taxonomy Development

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PD

SD

DD

CDCA

POE

Assess

Design/Build Cycle

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Pre-Design

Schematic Design

Design Development

Construction Docs

Construction Admin

Assessment:Learning

Effectiveness

Post-OccupancyEvaluation

FLEXspace/LSRSEco-System

Synergy with LSRS

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Stats as of June 8, 2015

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• 1114 Total User Accounts • 520 Unique .EDU Institutions Public: 325

US-485 Private: 173 UK-21 Canada-25 Germany, Jamaica, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Singapore, South Africa,

Sweden, UAE, Australia, France, Portugal• 57 Other Organizations• Institutional Size

Very Large/Large – 118 Community College - 66 Medium – 116 K-12 – 20 Small – 63 JISC (UK) 17 Very Small – 46 Other (inc. Library) 71

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Demo

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Use Case: Leading Conversations

• Generate targeted PPT collection from peers • Provide exemplars to faculty re: active learning activities –

in different types of spaces.• Gain contacts from trusted peers re: products/services• Use metrics to “build the case”• Others?

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Longer Term Development

Will help with: • “Hover Text” (mouse-over) clarification• Searching, filtering and sorting• Data Management/Stewardship• Preparation for version 2.0

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Longer Term Development

Rubrics – What’s Really Important? What Motivates…

Exploring Peer Review

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Discussion Point:LSRS Offers Quantitative Measures

Is there value in a simple ranking method to drive interest in “popular” records?

Synergy with LSRS

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Discussion

Crowdsourcing Options – Informal Peer Review?

Sustainability Roadmap

Spring 2014 Release 1.0 Target 500 Complete Records

Ongoing Build Community, Expand Sponsorship

Conferences & DemosExpand Web Toolkit & IAC

Summer2015 Release 2.0 Peer Review Functionality

Expand to Tiered Sponsorship

Summer 2016 Release 2.X Revise & Expand Business Plan:Business, K-12, 501[c]3’s

Summer 2017 Release 3.0Mature Adoption

Self-Sustaining via Sponsorship or Membership Model

Project Plan Deliverables

Questions?

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Lisa Stephens

Lisa.Stephens@suny.edu Senior Strategist, SUNY Academic Innovation

Joe Moreau

moreaujoseph@fhda.eduVice Chancellor, Technology-Foothill De Anza CC District

Brad Snyder

Brad.Snyder@cortland.eduAssociate Director, Campus Technology Services, SUNY Cortland