Assignment for NERCOMP Classrooms of the Future SIG
As mentioned in the conference description, we'd like you to do a little homework prior to arriving at the conference: Develop a list of the top five things students currently like about the classroom technology on your campus, and a top five list for faculty. Likewise, develop a list of the top five things students currently dislike about the classroom technology on your campus, and a top five list of things faculty dislike. We also ask that you either bring, or email me, 3 pictures of those particular things you or students might like about a particular learning space.
Top 5 Student Likes of our classrooms/learning spaces
- Pervasive wireless
- Large Displays for collaborative learning
- convenience of clusters across campus including QuickStations (Kiosks)
- ability to print
- Social environment
- Personal working environment follows them (roaming profiles and Athena home dir and config)
Things they don't know they like: (not really classroom related)
Secure single sign on to campus-wide computing resources.
Free or nearly free site-wide licensed software.
Top 5 Student Dislikes of our classrooms
- Inconsistent wireless (bandwidth and accessibility)
- Dirty clusters
- Damaged or missing hardware
- challenges printing
- Performance of CPU hardware and network bandwidth in some places
Top 5 Faculty Likes of our classrooms
- Standard reliable environment for students to work from
- Ability to get shared file space for classes (only on Athena)
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Top 5 Faculty Dislikes of our classrooms
- slow networks in some rooms
- specific applications not available in certain clusters or classrooms
- difficulty locatings, reserving clusters or electronic classrooms
- lack of Windows and Macintosh Clusters/Learning Spaces
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Pictures of the classrooms
need 3
Overview
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