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The Layout of Our New Rooms<\/p><\/div>\n
Open Forum on Instructional Spaces and Technologies<\/strong><\/h1>\nDate<\/strong>: Thursday March 19, 2020<\/p>\nTime<\/strong>: 11:00 to 2:00 (Peruse & Comment)<\/p>\nLocation<\/strong>: REID 113A and 113B (NEW GENERAL POOL CLASSROOMS)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\nCome See<\/strong> Come Comment:<\/strong> On these rooms, on future renovations, on what needs to in the classrooms where you teach.<\/h1>\nThe Academic Space Advisory Board, Coulter Faculty Center, and Instructional Technology want to hear from you as we think about what we\u2019re doing in our classrooms and laboratories over the next five or ten years.<\/p>\n
How are our classrooms serving you? How can they evolve to serve you better?<\/h1>\n
\n\n\nCome See <\/strong>Come Comment<\/strong><\/p>\nActive Learning Strategies for High Flex Rooms<\/p>\n
Help solve WCU\u2019s Blue-desk conundrum
\n(new furniture options to consider)<\/p>\n
Rooms with all-eyes-forward or tables for groups of six or eight.<\/p>\n
Whiteboards for Workgroups<\/p>\n
Mobile Podium Options<\/p>\n
Where is the line between classroom design verses classroom management?<\/p>\n
Laptop-Friendly alternates to Electronic Classrooms<\/p>\n
<\/td>\n
\u00a0<\/strong><\/td>\nIs now the time\u2026.<\/strong><\/p>\nTo phase out Electronic Classrooms for High-Flex Rooms?<\/p>\n
For BOTH students and instructors to bring their laptops to class?\u00a0 What\u2019s the future of the instructor\u2019s station?<\/p>\n
Talk about room-linking technologies so one instructor can teach concurrently in two or more locations<\/p>\n
<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
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\n <\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n Come See<\/strong> Come Comment:<\/strong> On these rooms, on future renovations, on what needs to in the classrooms where you teach.<\/h1>\n
How are our classrooms serving you? How can they evolve to serve you better?<\/h1>\n
\n\n
\n Come See <\/strong>Come Comment<\/strong><\/p>\n
\n(new furniture options to consider)<\/p>\n\u00a0<\/strong><\/td>\n Is now the time\u2026.<\/strong><\/p>\n