2012 Innovations In Teaching and Learning Conference
Pre-conference workshop

1:00 – 5:00 PM Thursday, April 26, 2012
Stamp Union, University of Maryland
College Park, MD

Facilitators:

• Jeanne L. Narum,
Principal,
Learning Spaces Collaboratory
  
• Spencer Benson, Director, Center for Teaching Excellence, University of Maryland

Facilitators:

• John Hartke, Lieutenant Colonel, US Army, Professor of Photonics, Department of Physics and Nuclear Engineering, United States Military Academy
  
• Jeanne L. Narum, Principal, Learning Spaces Collaboratory
  

April 19, 2012
4:00 p.m. EDT

The LSC Webinar on April 19 will focus on renovating spaces for undergraduate STEM learning.

The process of planning the renovation of the Science Center at West Point (Phase I recently completed) will be described.

• Learn about their goal of "making science visible:" how they arrived at that goal and achieved that goal.
• Learn about how a new model of learning spaces--the 'classaotry'--evolved during their planning and examine some the new classotories at West Point.
• Learn about how the faculty (and cadets) are adjusting to the new spaces.
• Learn what they learned from this first phase of renovation that will inform subsequent phases.
• Gain insights about modest steps toward renewing spaces, whether or not a major remodeling project is in your immediate future.

Read more: West Point’s new Science Center open for classes

Facilitators:

• Linda Barone, Project Manager, Facilities Management Services
  
• Nancy Magnuson, College Librarian
  
• Marc Roy, Provost
  
• Sanford J. Ungar, President

March 21, 2012
4:00 p.m. EDT

Marc Roy and colleagues will discuss The Athenaeum at Goucher College - the centerpiece of Goucher’s campus and community. This is "a signature building that the college envisions will become a vital point of connection between the academic, cultural, and social pursuits for community members — both on and off campus."

2012 North Central One-Day Conference
8:00am - 12:00p.m., February 24, 2012
Minneapolis Community & Technical College
Minneapolis, MN

For more information, see the conference website.

Facilitator: William R. LaCourse, Dean of the College of Natural and Mathematical Sciences (CNMS), University of Maryland Baltimore County

February 14, 2012
4:00 p.m. EST

Bill LaCourse and colleagues will describe the evolution and intent of the Chemistry Discovery Center at UMBC, which serves as a sandbox for pedagogical exploration and innovation on that campus— focusing on ensuring students gain skills essential to success in life and all future endeavors.

Herman Miller Showroom

February 9, 2012
11:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. EST

• February 8, 2012
  Boston, MA
  
  
• February 29, 2012
  Chicago, IL
  
  
• April 4, 2012
  Denver, CO

These seminars are opportunities for architects, academics, and other stakeholders to experience and critique approaches to an integrated process of planning 21st century learning spaces designed to serve 21st century learning. Planning templates and exercises emerging from the LSC community are resources for these one-day seminars.

SHARED FUTURES / DIFFICULT CHOICES
Reclaiming a Democratic Vision for College Learning,Global Engagement, and Success

January 25-28, 2012
Washington, DC / Grand Hyatt Hotel

January 19, 2012
4:00 p.m. EST

In this webinar, three participants in the 2011 colloquium will put forth best ideas and lessons learned from their experience on institutional planning teams: the project shepherd ; the campus facilities officer, and the architect.

The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI)

December 12-13, 2011
Arlington, VA

Assessing the Impact of Spaces for Learning on Undergraduate Learners: Building a Community of Practice

November 4 - 6, 2011

Participants in the 2011 LSC Colloquium will have opportunity to:

• explore questions to be addressed in planning and assessing built learning environments
  
  
• engage in the critique of those questions within a diverse community of practitioners
  
  
• examine those questions through the lens of findings from contemporary research and from practice in the field
  
  
• develop pilot protocols for assessing whether and how spaces for which they are responsible enable desired learning outcomes
  
  
• craft an institution-specific, take-home agenda for action to advance local planning of learning spaces: campus-wide or single projects, renovation/new construction.

October 25, 2011
4:00 p.m. EDT

September 15, 2011
4:00 p.m. EDT

SCUP’s Annual, International Conference & Idea Marketplace
National Harbor, Maryland
July 23-27, 2011

Worcester, Massachusetts
June 18, 2011

Featuring sessions on how to:

• Design and implement an active-classroom management plan
• Establish and sustain a high-performing leadership team
• Identify low-hanging fruit for piloting new approaches and quick fixes
• Transform libraries into information commons, with spaces for informal, collaborative learning
• Understand the flow of planning, beginning with the end in mind (An overview of a single project)
• Integrate attention to sustainability in facilities planning
• Engage students as learners, as active collaborators.

Facilitators:

• Kip Ellis, Einhorn Yaffee Prescott Architecture & Enginneering, PC
• Leila Kamal, Einhorn Yaffee Prescott Architecture & Enginneering, PC
• Michael Lauber, Ellenzweig
• Jeanne L. Narum, PKAL Learning Spaces Collaboratory
• Carol Wedge, Shepley Bulfinch
• Charles Stuart Weiss, College of the Holy Cross (Campus Liaison)

Waukesha, Wisconsin
May 7, 2011

Featuring sessions on how to:

• Design and implement an active-classroom management plan
• Establish and sustain a hi-performing leadership team
• Achieve common spaces for informal, collaborative learning
• Identify low-hanging fruit for piloting new approaches and quick fixes
• Understand the flow of planning, beginning with the end in mind (An overview of a single project)
• Integrate attention to sustainability in facilities planning
• Engage students as learners, as active collaborators.

Facilitators:

• James W. Baird, Holabird & Root
• Trevor Calarco, Flad Architects
• Jane Crisler, University of Wisconsin-Waukesha (Campus Liaison)
• Mark C. Hartmann, Harley Ellis Devereaux
• Arthur J. Lidsky, Dober Lidsky Mathey
• Scott Morton, Boldt Construction
• Jeanne L. Narum, PKAL Learning Spaces Collaboratory
• Brock Spencer, Beloit College

Washington, DC
March 24 – 26, 2011

Miami, Florida
March 24 – 26, 2011

Carlisle, Pennsylvania
March 19, 2011

Williamsburg, VA
March 6-8, 2011