Classroom transformation
The essential challenge of higher education is, as it were, to clone Socrates: to reproduce the intense give-and-take and personal focus of one-on-one teaching for hundreds or thousands of students at a time. Through information technology, we suddenly have the power to reach that goal: to transform university education from a long string of passive lectures and solitary projects into a intense, active, personalized and highly collaborative adventure that engages the imagination of both students and faculty as never before.
The essential challenge of higher education is, as it were, to clone Socrates: to reproduce the intense give-and-take and personal focus of one-on-one teaching for hundreds or thousands of students at a time. Through information technology, we suddenly have the power to reach that goal: to transform university education from a long string of passive lectures and solitary projects into a intense, active, personalized and highly collaborative adventure that engages the imagination of both students and faculty as never before.
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The round tables are great for interaction within groups but are a limiting factor for inter-group cross-pollination because of the physical incompatibility of round shapes. The kidney shaped or wave form work stations that we have discussed offer maximum flexibility for furniture re-configurations.
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