ELI Web Seminar, March 12, 2007 1:00 p.m. ET (12:00 p.m. CT, 11:00 a.m. MT, 10:00 a.m. PT); runs one hour

Planning the Informal Learning Landscape

Special Guests

Shirley Dugdale
Director, Learning Environments
DEGW North America LLC

Shirley Dugdale is a space planning consultant who specializes in learning environments. The focus of her work is on strategic approaches that use space design to help leverage institutional change. She explores facilities that have had a transformative impact and is interested in developing research on the relationship between space planning and improved learning outcomes. She received her master’s degree in architecture from Harvard and has worked for 20 years on academic facilities, from programming to master planning. Recent projects have included programming of facilities for Stanford, MIT, and Johns Hopkins.

Phillip D. Long
Associate Director, Office of Educational Innovation and Technology
MIT

Phillip Long is a senior strategist for the academic computing enterprise at MIT. He provides direction in applying information system resources to support the development and integration of educational technology into the academic environment. As a member of the leadership team of the Open Knowledge Initiative, a project to create an open source software development environment for online instruction, he coordinates the Educational Activities and Learning Practices work group and manages OKI outreach activities. He also directs the CrossTalk faculty seminars. Long serves on various advisory boards and professional committees. He has shared his knowledge and expertise at numerous conferences and through many invited presentations.

Summary

EDUCAUSE Vice President Diana Oblinger will moderate this Web seminar with Shirley Dugdale and Phillip D. Long, in which they discuss planning the informal learning landscape.

To support diverse learning styles and meet the needs of Net Generation learners, universities need to take a comprehensive approach to planning the spectrum of learning spaces on campus. The college campus as a whole is now recognized by many as the learning space that must be considered when designing learning environments. Dugdale and Long will discuss issues and strategies for planning the informal learning landscape.

Related EDUCAUSE Resources

• Suggested Discussion Questions for the Seminar [DOC 56 KB]
• Design of Informal Learning Spaces—ELI 2005 Fall Focus Session Proceedings (includes podcasts of pre- and postsession speaker interviews as well as presentation audio).
• Learning Spaces, an EDUCAUSE e-book.
• Learning Space Design, EDUCAUSE Review, vol. 40, no. 4 (July/August 2005).
• ELI Learning Space Design Topic Page.
• Deborah Bickford, David Wright, and William Dittoe, "Creating New Spaces for Learning in Community," ELI 2007 Annual Meeting Featured Session Presentation:
• Includes a podcast interview with Deborah Bickford and David Wright.
• Listen to the full audio from the featured session.