Learning Spaces:
Collaborative Spaces for
New Media
Joan K. Lippincott
Coalition for Networked Information
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Overview
• What are collaborative new media
spaces?
• Integrated facilities - what kinds of
services are incorporated?
• Collaboration - what does it really
mean?
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Coalition for Networked
Information (CNI)
• Joint project of ARL and EDUCAUSE
• Focus on cross-sector collaboration
• Networked information to advance
research and education
• Institutional membership organization
• www.cni.org
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NewMedia
Suites at
University
Of Toronto
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Group Work
in the Information Commons
University of
Arizona’s
Integrated
Learning
Center
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Emory
University’s
Information
Commons
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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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University of Tennessee
The Studio
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Wellesley College’s
Knapp Media & Technology Center
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Students
and faculty
share work
space at
Vassar’s
Media
Cloisters.
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Iowa State
students
share ideas
in a design
classroom
with wireless
access.
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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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A wired
classroom
at Emory
University
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Physical Spaces
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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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Large-scale, Integrative
Projects
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University of Arizona
Indiana University
University of Georgia
Dartmouth
University of Chicago
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University of Arizona’s
Integrated Learning Center
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University of Arizona’s
Integrated Learning Center
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Classrooms
Discussion rooms
Information Commons
Media Resource Center
Courtyard
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Indiana University Information
Commons
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Library reference services
IT support and consulting
Check out laptops and video equipment
Multimedia production lab
Training and education classrooms
Adaptive Technology Center
Writing tutorial services
Career reference center
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University of Georgia
Student Learning Center
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Classrooms
Advanced learning labs
Reference service points
Group study rooms
Coffee shop
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Dartmouth
College
Baker-Berry
Library
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Dartmouth Baker/Berry Library
Level 1
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Information Desk
Reference Desk
Computing Help Desk
Computer Sales and Service
Media Production
Faculty Academic Computing Center
Research and Instruction Services
Research and Informatics Learning
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University of Chicago
USITE/Crerar
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University of Chicago
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Cybercafe Web Stations
Apple Multimedia Wall
Collaborative Booths
Visualization Classroom and VideoConferencing Facility
• Teaching Assist. and Computing Asst.
Desks
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Common Threads
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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
• 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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What is the reality of working
together cross sectors?
• Co-location
• Cooperation
• Collaboration
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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
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Develop shared mission and goals
Joint planning
Shared governance or administration
Pool expertise to develop new services
Each contributes resources
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Think clearly about
what you want to
accomplish!
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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Located on the second floor of the Vassar College Main Library, the
Media Cloisters is a state-of-the-art space for collaborative
learning and the exploration of high end technologies.
The cloisters serves as the "public sphere" for networked
interaction, the gathering place for students, professors, and
librarians engaged in planning, evaluating, and reviewing the
efforts of research and study utilizing the whole range of
technologies of literacy. In this way, the Cloisters channels flows of
research, learning and teaching between the increasingly
networked world of the library and the intimacy and engagement
of our classrooms and other campus spaces.
In the Cloisters, course development, class-based projects, and
research necessarily become communal, interactive processes,
engaging colleagues, students, information specialists, and a
networked world of like-minded scholars, artists and media
practitioners in active "programming" and explorations.
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What is your vision?
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Contact:
Joan K. Lippincott
joan@cni.org
For more information, please visit the
Collaborative Facilities Web Site
Sponsored by Dartmouth College and CNI
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~collab