ELI Web Seminar, April 10, 2006 1:00 p.m. EDT (12:00 p.m. CDT, 11:00 a.m. MDT, 10:00 a.m. PDT); runs one hour

Adventures in Space Design: Building and Supporting a Collaborative Computing Lab

Special Guests

Alan R. Cattier
Director, Academic Technology Services
Emory University

Alan Cattier is the director of academic technology services at Emory University and has managed this group within the Division of Information Technology for two years. He is responsible for providing strategic coordination and operational management for faculty and student academic computing support across the university. Cattier, an avid writer and outdoorsman, recently cowrote An Outdoors Guide to Bartram's Travels. He is also adjunct faculty in the English department (for which he teaches literature) as well as the environmental studies department. He holds a BA from Dartmouth and an MA from Middlebury.

Kim Braxton
Manager, Centers for Educational Technology
Emory University

Kim Braxton is the manager of Emory University’s Centers for Educational Technology. She also directs the day-to-day activities of the Computing Center at Cox Hall, a unique computer lab designed to enhance and encourage collaboration within a comfortable and flexible space. Kim earned her master’s in instructional technology from the University of Georgia and has spent the past dozen years helping faculty and students use technology in new and exciting ways.

Summary

EDUCAUSE Vice President Diana Oblinger will moderate Alan Cattier and Kim Braxton’s Web Seminar, in which they will discuss the development of Emory’s innovative Cox Hall Computing Center.

In spring 2001, a project group composed of lab managers, A/V specialists, interior designers, and architects met to begin planning Emory’s first collaborative computing lab—the Computing Center at Cox Hall. What followed—making the facility a reality—was a wild success. Student use has grown from 5,000 users a month to more than 15,000, with both undergraduates and graduate students gravitating to the new ways of researching, working, and learning together that the center supports.

This Web Seminar will tell the story of the facility, from design to production, highlighting essential strategies for building, enabling, and living with one vision of a next-generation computing center. Join us and get jazzed in the lab!

Related EDUCAUSE Resources

• ELI Innovations & Implementations: The Computing Center at Cox Hall, Emory University
• ELI Enhanced Podcasts on Model Learning Space
• Proceedings, ELI 2005 Fall Focus Session: Design of Informal Learning Spaces
• ELI Learning Space Design Page