2006 Learning Spaces and Technology Workshop

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2006 Learning Spaces and Technology Workshop

February 17-19, 2006: Memphis, TN

The Learning Spaces and Technology Workshop is designed to help colleges and universities plan for effective technology-enhanced learning spaces. The Learning Spaces Workshop will serve both those institutions that are planning to construct new facilities and those that are intending to renovate existing buildings seeking in both instances to enable faculty members and students to use technology more effectively and creatively in the service of learning. A learning space could be a library, computing center, classroom, or a computing or multi-media lab usually associated with libraries and computing centers.

The workshop is being organized by the Council of Independent Colleges (CIC) and the National Institute for Technology and Liberal Education (NITLE) in collaboration with Project Kaleidoscope. Financial support is provided by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Twenty-one institutions will be invited to participate in the workshop. Institutions are asked to assemble a team representing the particular areas of responsibility and expertise that are (or will be) engaged in planning and using the new learning space. An institutional team may have from two to five members and must include a vice president who has budget authority.

All independent colleges and universities are eligible to apply. Preference will be given to applications from institutions that have not sent teams to prior NITLE Learning Spaces Workshops and are currently members of the Council of Independent Colleges and/or participants in the National Institute for Technology and Liberal Education. Applications will be evaluated on the evidence of the ability of your institutional team to effect change upon returning home, your institution's present engagement with technology to foster student learning, your readiness to take appropriate next steps in improving learning spaces on campus, and the likelihood that the experience of your institution will be valuable to others attending the workshop.

There is no registration or tuition fee. Each institutional team that is accepted to attend the workshop will receive substantial subsidies from CIC and NITLE. Most meals will be provided to all conference participants, as will up to $1,600 per team to offset travel and lodging expenses. Reimbursement checks will be distributed following the workshop and will be paid to the institution. The application should be completed by September 30, 2005. Participants will be notified of acceptance by October 21.

For questions about the Learning Spaces Workshop, contact CIC Projects Manager Stephen Gibson at (202) 466-7230 ext. 209, or e-mail sgibson@cic.nche.edu.