Coming soon in a classroom to you! (???) ...In the [UCLA] subcommittee on modernizing the classroom, there are 10 of us looking at the current state of our classrooms. We’re also looking at the trends in higher education to inform how we can make our classrooms more effective for new ways of teaching and learning. After this phase, we’ll be putting together our comprehensive strategic plan that my group then will be then implementing.
We’re going to look at social spaces and how we can integrate those into the residence halls. We’ve seen a big move toward group studies. If we look at the research library, there’s ergonomics to allow that collaboration. You have to be able to turn chairs around and push tables together easily. So, we’re really looking at this holistically. I think taking what we naturally want to do as humans and bringing that into teaching and learning is going to be how we can make it more effective.
For example, as more TVs are installed in residence halls, why not also integrate a hotel system that will allow students to flip on the TV in their room and scroll down a menu to watch their class from the day before? We could send messaging through it; they could order their Starbucks* through it because the system would start to understand them. You probably get in your car and it knows where you want to go because it gets used to your habits. Why not bring that into our campus experience? ...
Joe Way, UCLA’s executive director of digital spaces interviewed in:
https://newsroom.ucla.edu/stories/to-modernize-classrooms-at-ucla-joe-way-is-looking-anywhere-but.
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*I guess the subcommittee is not boycotting Starbucks.
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