I. Making the Case: The Return on the Investment in 21st Century Environments for Learning

Of Special Note (2/24/20)Making the case for determining the return on the investment of institutional resources in physical and virtual environments for learning can be calibrated from several perspectives: focusing on learners, institutional programmatic and pedagogical initiatives, faculty and budgets, and, finally, on the institutional image into the future.
- What do we know now about how our students experience learning?
- What difference will new/repurposed spaces have for the experience of the learner?
- If we are to establish baseline data from which to determine the impact of our planning on learners, what do we need to know as we begin?
- How can we calibrate the return on investment at the level of the individual student, on our graduates?
- What will be our measures of success for what our students have become, and are recognized for accomplishing in the world?
- How do we measure the return on an investment in spaces we have intentionally designed as a bridge into the future?

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C. Making the Case – Planning takes a long time