Teaching in the Link

What kinds of teaching and learning activities will take place in these new spaces? The table below summarizes the types of activities that are anticipated to take place in Fall 2008.

Instructional activity	Description
Groups with breakout sessions	Combining presentations/large group work with small group activities or breakout groups
Video with real-time playback to capture large and small group activities	Combining large group work with small group work, including the use of video capture for immediately reviewing small group activities in the large group
Videconferencing during class sessions	Connecting with a person or group in a remote location via interactive videoconferencing
Presentations incorporating multiple simultanous projected sources	Projecting 2-3 different sources simultaneously to allow for comparison, contrast
Projecting student work from multiple classroom computers	Projecting the work of individuals or small groups on multiple surfaces
In-class interaction with large data files and data sets	Using specialized software to manipulate, analyze or visualize large data sets
Use of fixed-lab computers for computing-intensive instruction	Using high performance desktop computers in a fixed lab setting for individual student access to GIS, Matlab, multimedia or other computing-intensive instructional activities
Reconfiguring classroom seating arrangements during a class session	Moving from presentations or mini-lectures to small group work within the same classroom by rearranging the furnishings during a class session
Simultaneous meetings of multiple course sections to enable combined meetings	Booking multiple nearby classroom spaces to enable different sections of the same course to meet both together and separately during the same time block