Teaching in Flexible Learning Spaces: Opportunities and Challenges
Malcolm Brown
Rapid development of information technology and the emergence of new types of technology-enhanced spaces for teaching and learning have presented higher education with a rare opportunity to rethink and reassess the manner in which it fulfills its core mission, the education of its students. Coupled with a new understanding about how people learn, these developments have prompted us to shift our focus from teaching to learning, and to broaden our thinking from classrooms to learning spaces. Flexible learning spaces provide faculty real opportunities to use new teaching methods and learning activities unconstrained by traditional classroom designs.
Malcolm Brown, an expert in the design and use of new learning spaces, will identify the opportunities and challenges that lie before us as we "upgrade" our teaching to take advantage of new facilities and technologies.
Malcolm Brown is Director of Academic Computing at Dartmouth College. His group supports the applications of computing in research and the curriculum and is responsible for classroom technology support as well as video production. Brown serves on the Educause Learning Initiatives Advisory board, is a member of the Educause Evolving Technologies committee and is on the faculty of the Educause Learning Technology Leadership workshop. He has been on the board for the Horizon report and served as Chair of Board of the New Media Consortium. He has authored articles and a book chapter on learning space design. Brown holds a pair of BA degrees from UC Santa Cruz, studied in Freiburg, Germany, on a pair of Fulbright scholarships, and has a PhD in German Studies from Stanford University. He has taught several courses on Nietzsche and antisemitism in Dartmouth's Jewish Studies program.
More information about Malcolm Brown
Malcolm Brown's Educause Peer Profile
Selected articles by Malcolm Brown:
Learning Spaces
Learning Spaces: More Than Meets the Eye
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