ELI Web Seminar, April 23, 2007 1:00 p.m. ET (12:00 p.m. CT, 11:00 a.m. MT, 10:00 a.m. PT); runs one hour

Forecasting Trends in Student Life and Student Technologies

Special Guests

John Cook
Principal
The Sextant Group

John Cook is a principal with The Sextant Group, an independent technology consulting firm specializing in higher education. Working with campuses across North America, the firm designs and specifies innovative solutions in audio, video, conferencing, IT, telecommunications, physical security, and acoustics. Cook's passion is supporting teaching and learning through instructional technologies. He is a member of the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) and the Consortium of School Networking (CoSN). Cook earned a master's in educational technology from Purdue University.

Paul Knell
Senior Principal
WTW Architects

Paul Knell is a senior principal at WTW Architects, specializing in the planning, programming, designing, and assessment of college union facilities. Knell joined WTW in 1980 and originally designed corporate and healthcare facilities until his first union project, the William Pitt Union at the University of Pittsburgh. He fell in love with the college union idea, but mostly the personal interaction with the students, faculty, and administration. He enjoys working with diverse university groups to design unions that become the crossroads of each campus. Knell was profiled in the Wall Street Journal, has authored several articles for the Association for College Unions International, the preeminent authority on student unions, and often conducts workshops at regional and national conferences with respect to developing trends in unions. He is also the author of College Union Dynamic: Flexible Solutions for Successful Facilities.

Summary

EDUCAUSE Vice President Diana Oblinger will moderate this Web seminar with John Cook and Paul Knell, in which they discuss Student Life.

Student Life is evolving exponentially and technology is driving the demands of the next generation of students. The prudent planning, financing, and operating of the Student Life facilities of the future will require accurate data, insight, and a peek into the crystal ball. The presenters will illustrate the impact of emerging trends on student lifestyle, media consumption, entertainment, personal communications, fitness, and computing needs found in the campus facilities that support Student Life.

Related EDUCAUSE Resources

• Proceedings—ELI 2005 Fall Focus Session, Design of Informal Learning Spaces
• Learning Space Design, EDUCAUSE Review, vol. 40, no. 4 (July/August 2005)
• ELI Web Seminar—March 2007, Planning the Informal Learning Landscape (Archive)
  Please note that Web seminar archives are available only to ELI members for one year from the original event date.
• ELI Learning Space Design Topic Page
• ELI Emerging Technologies and Practices Topic Page

Additional Resources

• David Cain and Gary L. Reynolds, "The Impact of Facilities on Recruitment and Retention of Students," Facilities Manager, vol. 22, no. 2 (March/April 2006)
• Paul Knell and Stan Latta, College Union Dynamic: Flexible Solutions for Successful Facilities (Bloomington, Ind.: Association of College Unions International, January 2006).