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EDUCAUSE Live! November 21, 2008 1:00 p.m. ET (12:00 p.m. CT, 11:00 a.m. MT, 10:00 a.m. PT); runs one hour

A Space of One’s Own: Learning Environments Derived from User-Centered Discovery Techniques

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Crit Stuart View Event ArchivesCrit Stuart
Director for Research, Teaching, and Learning
Association of Research Libraries (ARL)

Crit Stuart is program director for research, teaching, and learning for the Association of Research Libraries (ARL). The mission of this new position is to develop and implement imaginative and practical strategies that promote and facilitate the integration and use of research library resources and services throughout the research institution. Prior to taking the ARL position in May 2007, Stuart was associate director for public services at the Library and Information Center, Georgia Institute of Technology. There he coordinated the evolution of library as place, emphasizing enhancements to spaces, technologies, and services to support student productivity and success in a 24-hour environment and to expanding practical partnerships between the library and students, faculty, and student support services. Stuart holds a bachelor's from the University of Arkansas and a master's of librarianship from Emory University.

Summary

Your host, Steve Worona, will be joined by Crit Stuart, and the topic will be "A Space of One’s Own: Learning Environments Derived from User-Centered Discovery Techniques."

Academic libraries are committed to delivering new or improved learning spaces for students. Information/learning commons are de rigueur for libraries seeking to refresh and deepen their engagements with undergraduate learners. The most noteworthy learning environments provide enhanced productivity capacities; exposure to collections and digital information; skills training for knowledge creation; and development of information, verbal, written, and multimedia fluencies.

While it is tempting to mimic learning space solutions delivered by other libraries, such appropriation circumvents staff-owned discovery processes that create a deep understanding of, and commitment to, what is being built.

Smart preprogramming assessment techniques that tap into user wisdom, learning habits, and research needs provide a helpful framework for identifying needed solutions. This presentation will review a number of user-centered programming assessment techniques that are field-tested, easy to modify and extemporize on, and reliable in producing excellent data for constructing informed building programs.

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