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What's up with smart classrooms, intelligent lecture platforms, and so forth? What is a smart classroom? Do we even need classrooms at all? What are examples of state-of-the-art working "smart" classrooms? Should smart classrooms include computers for faculty or should faculty bring their own? How do students feel about them? Who pays for smart classrooms? Are there differences between big and small smart classooms?

Malcolm has recently gathered survey data from a number of institutions. You can join the discussion as it continues here. And, you can still complete the entire survey (fast and simple) here.

Guest Expert

Malcolm Brown is Director of Academic Computing at Dartmouth College, where he reorganized the User Services division of Computing Services into academic computing and consulting groups under the general label of Academic Computing. He has been chair of Dartmouth's Subcommittee on Classroom Development and Utilization since its inception in 1993. The Subcommittee has completed over twenty smart classroom renovation projects, overseen the development of a dozen new classrooms, and assisted with a recently completed in-depth study of Dartmouth's classroom utilization. He is conducting a survey of leading higher education institutions on the deployment of technology in classrooms. This survey includes research universities, liberal arts colleges, and community colleges. This research will form the basis of the CREN Tech Talk.

Malcom's undergraduate work was done at at UC Santa Cruz, where he received degrees in philosophy and German literature. After spending two years studying philosophy at the Albert-Ludwigs University in Freiburg, Germany, on a Fulbright scholarship, he began a doctoral program in German Studies at Stanford in 1979. He completed the program in 1985 with a dissertation on Nietzsche. He maintains the Nietzsche Chronicle, a Website on Nietzsche's life.

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Background & Resources

Please share URLs with us: tcalhoun@scup.org.

Some he shared with us are Rice University Classroom & Lab Information, Dartmouth's understated Equipped Classrooms, MultiMedia Classrooms from the University of Central Florida and from Penn State, Multimedia Technology Classrooms at University Park Campus. (See more like these, below.)

Here's an IBM case study of "the classroom of the future" at Kent State University.

Many schools have online listings and descriptions of their technology-enhanced classrooms: Ahead of the curve in many ways, what George Mason University has to share about its Electronic Classrooms is of interest. Comparing what these rooms have and how they are defined is interesting. Some others include:

• University of Tennessee
• San Diego State University
• University of South Dakota
• Rochester Institute of Technology
• Hamilton College
• University of Alberta
• New Jersey Institute of Technology's "smart carts"

• Creating a Digitally Integrated Learning Environment
• Planning for the Wired, Flexible and Smart: The Technology-Enabled Classroom
• Programming University Facilities: Making Space
• Technology-Enhanced Classrooms in Graduate Business and Law Schools
• Classroom Evolution at the University of Cincinnati
• Virginia Tech�s Advanced Communication and Information Technology Center: A 21st Century Space
• Vassar College Classroom Master Plan: One Year Later
• Old Buildings and New Tricks

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