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What Works: Considering Pedagogies that Serve to Strengthen Student Learning

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Designing spaces that accommodate the technologies that are transforming the learning environment

Gary A. Gabriele, Richard M. Heinz
Gabriele and Heinz explain the issues, process, and benefits of creating studio classrooms at RPI. Eliminating long lectures and focusing on student discovery, studio classrooms provide the opportunity for hands-on activities, multi-media learning, and interaction between students and faculty, and ultitmately, increase the excitement for learning for the student and instructor.

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A Science-Based, Integrative Pilot Approach to Introduction to Psychology

Nancy Dess
A pilot introductory course ventures away from the traditional approach of explaining the structure of the discipline and toward a topical teaching approach that exchanges depth for breadth.

On Permeability - The Biology of Architecture

Cahal Stephens, Kip Ellis
An essay addressing: "What will the spaces and structures for undergraduate science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) look like in ten years, and what are your reasons for making such predictions?"

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A Kaleidoscope of Thoughts on the Future— 2025

Exceprts from PKAL Volume III, these five visions of the future of education explore issues of technology, interdisciplinarity, communication, curriculum, and the liberal arts.

Creating Spaces that Support Active Hands-on Investigation

Neal B. Abraham, James W. Baird
James Baird, a principal at Holabird & Root, poses and explores four questions regarding research space and the planning to build these spaces. Through the proper use of appropriate technology, group learning across disciplines can be attained. Looking at common spaces, classrooms and laboratories he shows how the room will vary according to the purpose. The space should serve the user and allow for future flexibility.

Hot pedagogy and cold buildings

David Lopatto
David Lopatto, Professor of Psychology at Grinnell College, explores the influences of motivation and emotion on decision-making and on thinking– what psychologists occasionally call “hot cognition.”

Pedagogies of Engagement: Classroom-Based Practices

Karl A. Smith

Teaching and Learning in Computer Science: Incorporating Assessment as a Tool Against Obsolescence

David L. Ranum