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How to Embrace Unconventional Classroom Designs

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How to Embrace Unconventional Classroom Designs. Despite the abundant technology advances that have taken place over the past century, many classrooms still have something in common with the one-room schoolhouses of yore. Each collaborative area must have access to a digital display. Modernize Classrooms with Open Spaces.

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How managed services empower edtech in small schools

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Examples of this scenario are school districts that installed interactive touchscreen panels in all their classrooms. Designed to replace whiteboards as well as school projectors, these highly interactive devices are rated for use for over 50,000 hours. It ensures that only authorized users have access to each school device.

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Function Follows Form: How Two Colleges Redesigned the Classroom for Active Learning

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These centers offered access to tools and training on proven pedagogies and new technologies, but faculty often viewed using them as optional or an addition to their already busy schedules. Gone is the “front of the room” that characterizes standard classrooms. Now, pods for group work circle monitors connected to a video wall.

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Flipping Faculty from Guide on the Side to Mentor in the Center

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Students in the 21st century enter the classroom armed with a vast array of knowledge just a swipe away on various digital devices. In addition, they have access to instant entertainment and innovative instruction on various websites, social media, and podcasts. Over time, student expectations and readiness have changed. References.

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University of Michigan Turns Courses Into Games

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GradeCraft is an award-winning, game-oriented LMS designed to boost student engagement and motivation. Future plans include making the LMS more accessible to more faculty members early next year, with an official launch to make it commercially available to the public during the Fall 2017 semester.

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Flipping Faculty from Guide on the Side to Mentor in the Center

Faculty Focus

Students in the 21st century enter the classroom armed with a vast array of knowledge just a swipe away on various digital devices. In addition, they have access to instant entertainment and innovative instruction on various websites, social media, and podcasts. Over time, student expectations and readiness have changed. References.

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Can Space Activate Learning? UC Irvine Seeks to Find Out With $67M Teaching Facility

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Actively Certified To encourage faculty to try active learning, the school offers an active learning certification process, and those who complete it receive priority access to teaching in the new building.