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Power Up Your Spaces

A Principal's Reflections

Cost and ease of access will only lead to more schools and districts going down this path. The USDOE’s Office of Educational Technology places emphasis on students and educators having access to a robust and comprehensive infrastructure when and where they need it for learning. Powerful learning devices.

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Research-Influenced Learning Spaces

A Principal's Reflections

When designing the space, it’s important for educators not to overstimulate and thus detract students’ ability to focus but to provide enough stimuli to enhance the learning experience. Today’s educational paradigm is no longer one of knowledge transfer but one of knowledge creation and curation. Steelcase Education.

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To Get More Students to Office Hours, Colleges Rethink the Faculty Office

Edsurge

Selingo, a former editor of The Chronicle of Higher Education, who wrote a white paper on innovative faculty office designs for the furniture company Steelcase. In the humanities, he says, professors really do need access to their books to do their research. The concept is called “hoteling,” explains Jeffrey J.

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In the marketplace: Funding for active learning, a helping hand for innovative programs, and an interactive book program

eSchool News

Tech-savvy educators know they must stay on top of the myriad changes and trends in education to learn how teaching and learning can best benefit from technology’s near-constant change.

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What it's like to teach in an active learning classroom

Robert Talbert, Ph.D.

and easy access to digital and analog learning tools including whiteboards, projectors, and power supplies. As most readers know, I spent the 2017-2018 academic year on sabbatical at Steelcase doing research on active learning spaces, which resulted in this comprehensive literature review paper co-authored with architect Anat Mor-Avi.