More info about iBeacon technology — from DavidLeeKing.com
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“Learning Spaces – Lernwelten”. New database to view global trends for the first time! — by Professor/Dr. Richard Stang for the Learning Research Center at Media University Stuttgart; the database is curated by Stefan Volkmann
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Database structure: 1 Facet between introductory, visually inspiring, and theory & research materials 2 Physical Spaces & Institutions – schools, universities, libraries, adult education, etc. 3 Digital & Hybrid Spaces 4 Design and Architectual Aspects 4.2.4 Information Technology Integration 4.2.4.2 Mobile Devices 4.5 Service Design 5 Organizational, practical and methodic aspects 5.1 Policy & Strategy 5.2 / 5.3 organisational & cooperation structures 5.4 Project Cycle & -Management 5.5 Stakeholder-driven Innovation 6 Learning types and demographic change 7 Stakeholders – Learners of all ages, teachers, practitioners, designer, and decision makers 8 Languages – especially English, German, and Scandinavian 9 Countries and Regions
Also see:
Addendum 2/13/15:
The article therein mentions:
Future of the Campus in a Digital World — from campusmatters.net by Michael Haggans | November 2014
Excerpts from PDF (emphasis DSC):
In the digitally driven future of higher education, three-dimensional classroom spaces still will be needed. They won’t be used in the traditional manner and they won’t be the traditional kind. They will be bigger, flatter, faster and there will need to be fewer classrooms for the same number of students.
Classes that meet on campus will need additional area per student to accommodate interactive configurations, such as those allowing group work in the flow of the traditional class period. Typically these will be flat floors allowing easy configuration changes. At the same time, these rooms must be faster, with access to robust bandwidth.
Both physical and administrative adaptations will be required. While there will be more floor area per student when in class, the number of classroom hours per degree will drop, and all the while the expectation for digital transmission capability will continue to rise. To justify the required investment, institutions will have to rethink the administration of classroom scheduling to maximize effectiveness for students and faculty, and to achieve increased utilization. These are not new or easily managed issues for higher education. The accelerating move to online instruction will expose existing weaknesses of current systems and the benefits of more strategic investments and scheduling.
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Digital Visible
From an institutional perspective, many of the implications of digital transformation are difficult to see, lost in a thicket of business issues presenting themselves with increasing urgency. Moreover, the changes induced by digital transformation are difficult to address through traditional facilities development and capital funding processes. These transformations are not about the need for a single new – or better – building, a campus student recreation center or teaching laboratory.
This is about adjusting the performance of the whole campus to support a digitally transformed pedagogy and academic community.
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Libraries have never been about books. They have always been about access to and use of information.
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Make campus matter
With so much of higher education available in digital and largely asynchronous forms, the justification for a campus must derive from something more than “we have always done it this way.” Even at the most traditional institutions “on-campus time per degree” will decrease. This change in convention will make the support of increasingly limited face-to-face time of
strategic value, rather than an assumed byproduct of traditional campus life.
From DSC:
iBeacons, sensors, & similar machine-to-machine (M2M) communications: Connecting the physical world with the digital world while opening up enormous possibilities for education & training-related applications.
Does Studying Fine Art = Unemployment? Introducing LinkedIn’s Field of Study Explorer — from LinkedIn.com by Kathy Hwang
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[On July 28, 2014], we are pleased to announce a new product – Field of Study Explorer – designed to help students like Candice explore the wide range of careers LinkedIn members have pursued based on what they studied in school.
So let’s explore the validity of this assumption: studying fine art = unemployment by looking at the careers of members who studied Fine & Studio Arts at Universities around the world. Are they all starving artists who live in their parents’ basements?
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The New Rankings? — from insidehighered.com by Charlie Tyson
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Who majored in Slovak language and literature? At least 14 IBM employees, according to LinkedIn.
Late last month LinkedIn unveiled a “field of study explorer.” Enter a field of study – even one as obscure in the U.S. as Slovak – and you’ll see which companies Slovak majors on LinkedIn work for, which fields they work in and where they went to college. You can also search by college, by industry and by location. You can winnow down, if you desire, to find the employee who majored in Slovak at the Open University and worked in Britain after graduation.
Excerpt from custerworklab.com:
The floor plan includes 10,000 square feet of co-working space.
All the meeting spaces include display and switching technology with video conferencing available in three of the rooms. Other features include a work lounge, cafe and a variety of other workstations. Plus more social accessibility, ergonomic furniture and the best technology available.
From DSC:
I recently toured this space and I can tell you that you can quickly get a sense of how much thought and effort went into the design of that collaborative workspace.
Check out the photo gallery and 360 degree tour to see what I mean.
I think you will agree that each and every thing that you see in that space is approached from a sense of design and functionality. Everything is there for a reason. The technology. The furniture. The esthetics and accessories. Everything. It’s very well done. If you get a chance to use it or tour it, I would highly recommend it. Custer’s Worklab lays out so many things that are helpful in a collaborative learning/workspace.
Also see:
Via Anne Whisken’s Library Learning Spaces
Library at the Dock: Australia’s First Public CLT Building Opens *
Key features:
* where CLT stands for cross laminated timber (CLT)
Also see:
Reinventing libraries for ‘hanging out, messing around and geeking out’ — from CNN.com by Emanuella Grinberg
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The staff takes special pride in its mentor-led activities, offered in partnerships with various community organizations: a spoken word workshop, a video game program and a makerspace, or workshop, where teens create birdcages, duct tape wallets and other art projects.
It might be a library, but for 18-year-old Alexis Woodward, the atmosphere is more like a “family reunion,” she said.
“It’s always packed until it closes. Everybody goes to the library after school,” said Woodward, who began participating in the spoken word program when she was 14.
From DSC:
Egor’s curated collections also include collaborative work spaces, libraries, other.
New York Public Library partners with Zola to offer algorithmic book recommendations — from gigaom.com by Laura Hazard Owen
The New York Public Library will offer book recommendations to readers through its website via a new partnership with NYC-based startup Zola Books.
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Visitors to the New York Public Library’s website will have a new way to decide what to read next: The library is partnering with New York-based startup Zola Books to offer algorithm-based recommendations to readers. The technology comes from Bookish, the book discovery site that Zola acquired earlier this year.
From DSC:
If the New York Public Library can do this with books, why can’t a smart TV-based service offer this sort of functionality for educationally-related materials? (Or a second screen-based application?) What if MOOCs integrated this sort of recommendation engine and then accessed/delivered the digitally-based content to you? Some serious personalized/customized micro-learning.
![The Living [Class] Room -- by Daniel Christian -- July 2012 -- a second device used in conjunction with a Smart/Connected TV](http://danielschristian.com/learning-ecosystems/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/The-Living-Class-Room-Daniel-S-Christian-July-2012.jpg)
Readmill makes each and every book its own self-contained social network, allowing readers to discuss, share and review from inside of the e-book.
Readmill: Redefining the Ebook
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The books of the modern-day have progressed far beyond just containing stories, they are now social networks in their own right – generating vast reams of data offering insight into not only what we read, but how, when and where we are reading it. At the forefront of this movement is Readmill, an app staking its future on being the great reading app.
Readmill makes each and every book its own self-contained social network, allowing readers to discuss, share and review from inside of the e-book. If you find a passage you like, you can highlight it and comment on it right from within the book. Other users reading the book and even the author can see these comments and add their own thoughts, starting a discussion within the book, without ever having to leave it.
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Readmill has positioned itself as a company which detaches itself from ‘the selling of the book” to focus on the “social experience.”
Connected! Readmill redefines ebooks as social networks — from futureofthebook.blogspot.com
From DSC:
Two things come to mind when I read this:
1) What if we applied the same concept towards electronically-delivered streams of content? What if, instead of an e-book, we presented a particular topic of discussion or a particular lesson to kick things off and then have Communities of Practice take over from there? (This could fit nicely into the “Learning from the Living Class [Room] vision, enabled by the Smart/Connected TV.)
2) What if we could have “layers” on a digital “textbook”?
25 amazing street art and mural works about books, libraries and reading — from ebookfriendly.com by Piotr Kowalczyk
Bookless public library opens in Texas — from npr.org by Bill Chappell with thanks to Laura Goodrich/Don Tapscott for this resource
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Optimizing informal learning spaces: Ten tips for universities — from gettingsmart.com by Dr. Lennie Scott-Webber, Steelcase Education Solutions
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Below are ten guiding tenets for those who plan education spaces to reimagine in-between space real estate to better capture these moments of learning for more effective informal learning spaces…
