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2007 Campus Technology Innovators: High-Tech Learning Spaces
8/1/2007
Polycom. The room features three screens: a large central projection screen and two rear-projection mobile Smart Boards on either side. Faculty are able to display multiple pieces of information and seamlessly mark up presentations on the fly. Hewlett-Packard tablet PCs and Apple MacBook Pros are available to every student, and all are interconnected through a central server housed in the room. Faculty and students can easily share information using Tidebreak's TeamSpot collaboration software. Instructors may also use TurningPoint student response systems for polling and sampling a class's level of comprehension. Software for text and image generation, such as a suite of Adobe software, is readily available, along with a range of software applications for collaboration and/or discipline-specific activities. Additionally, various classroom-capture technologies facilitate publishing of course materials and class activities and content. Faculty and student response to the Incubator Classroom has been overwhelmingly positive based upon survey data and comments gathered since the facility's opening this past academic year.
SJSU’S INCUBATOR
CLASSROOM combines
flexible classroom furniture
and configurations
with an
array of AV technologies
designed to enable two-way,
collaborative classroom
interaction.
Facilitating instructional innovations. The space is not merely a teaching space, but also a research space: designed for faculty to work on instructional innovations, and demonstrate and measure their effectiveness. Faculty who wish to teach in the Incubator Classroom submit a course proposal outlining how they plan to utilize the tools to positively impact student achievement. After only a single semester, facility administrators were inundated by innovative faculty proposals. Courses taking advantage of the Incubator Classroom technology come from all different disciplines; some examples include Archaeology Research, Industrial Design, Animation and Illustration, and Science for Elementary School Teachers. "It's been fascinating to watch faculty using the room, and finding out where they want the controls, where students want chairs, tables—how they want to work," says Gorney-Moreno. By studying how each of the disciplines leverages technologies, San Jose State is using the Incubator Classroom space to prototype technology-enhanced classrooms of the future.
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