EDUCAUSE Review Magazine, Volume 40, Number 4, July/August 2005

Features

• Design of the Learning Space: Learning and Design Principles
  Chris Johnson and Cyprien Lomas
  By focusing on design principles grounded in deeper learning principles, in what makes successful teaching and learning, a campus can revolutionize the design process to create learning spaces that meet the needs of both faculty and students.
• Creation of the Learning Space: Catalysts for Envisioning and Navigating the Design Process
  Carole C. Wedge and Thomas D. Kearns
  A strategic design process that identifies space needs and analyzes possible solutions, functionality, and costs allows campus planning groups and architectural designers to take a fresh look at utilization, collaboration, flexibility, and adaptability to cost-effectively create institutional learning spaces.
• Future of the Learning Space: Breaking Out of the Box
  Phillip D. Long and Stephen C. Ehrmann
  This discussion of the inadequacies of traditional classrooms, of ideas that break with these traditions, and of suggested areas for the design team to keep in mind can help campuses plan pioneering, rather than imitative, learning spaces for the future.

ALSO IN THIS ISSUE:

• Learning Space Design Theory and Practice
  Malcolm Brown
• Learning Space Design Precepts and Assumptions
  Mark S. Valenti
• Learning Space Design in Action
  Phillip D. Long

Book Excerpt

• The Future of Networking in Higher Education
  Richard N. Katz
  From Judith A. Pirani and Gail Salaway, with Richard N. Katz and John Voloudakis,Information Technology Networking in Higher Education: Campus Commodity and Competitive Differentiator
  The shifts toward an integrated cyberinfrastructure and toward pervasive and personalized intelligence and communications have enormous and exciting implications for networking in higher education.

Departments

• techwatch
  Information Technology in the News
• Leadership
  Tight Times: Utilizing IT to Optimize Scarce Resources
  Robert H. Bruininks
• E-Content
  Learning Objects: A Rose by Any Other Name?
  Susan E. Metros
• IT Myths
  The Myth about E-Learning
  Diana G. Oblinger and Brian L. Hawkins
• New Horizons
  Leveraging National LambdaRail: The Road to RON
  Larry Conrad and Veronica Sarjeant
• policy@edu
  Security Breaches: Notification, Treatment, and Prevention
  Rodney Petersen
• Viewpoints
  The Open Source Congress
  Colin Currie
• Homepage
  A Legacy of Collaboration
  Cynthia Golden