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The Evolving Electronic Classroom Robert W. Cavenagh Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA cavenagh@ /~cavenagh Presentation overview: A quick review of classroom evolution Computer equipped classrooms Needs assessment Smart3: A standard for our campus The emerging issue: Groupwork Discussion: so, what do they DO? Dickinson: growth of ‘smart’ Electronic Classrooms: 1974, the ‘computer lab’ with many terminals, and later with microcomputers 1983, rooms with installed data projector/computer 1994, the arrival of ‘studio’ classrooms and carts 1998, the addition of ‘collaboration stations’ and hybrids 2001, our Smart3 protocol--our third generation. 2002, the design of collaborative classrooms. Future: more, More, MORE (we are currently at 66 classrooms, labs, carts and similar facilities) This ‘lab’ uses LCD monitors to improve eye contact between participants, facilitates discussion. A basic ‘smart’ classroom: computer, projector, video, sound, workstation. Early versions were custom designed for their users. We have gone from 3-gun projectors to LCDs to brighter LCDs. This one adds a Smart Board? A ‘studio’ format classroom. We first observed these at MIT and Middlebury. Face in for discussion, face screen for presentation, turn to computers for individual work. Satisfactory for up to two students per computer, not more. Some ‘hybrid classrooms’ and labs This physics lab integrates collaboration on computing and experiments into its very fabric. Since 1997 we have been experimenting with ‘collaborative workstations’ that place users on the outside of a curve. They work. Our early ‘smart’ classrooms were driven by WANTS. We are now attempting to document NEEDS. We used these strategies: A ‘facilities utilization study’ by an architecture and planning firm A careful analysis of Registrar’s records Lists of un-met requests when faculty seek rooms. Student and faculty surveys A committee to monitor progress Evolution of the Smart3