Collaborative learning space overview

1. Collaborative Learning Spaces

2. History of Collaborative Learning Spaces
• Labs
Acted as the first Collaborative Learning Classrooms
Used as a part of instruction since the early 19th century
Concept eventually spread across disciplines
PBL – Problem based learning
• Lecture Halls
Interactive Lecture
Peer Instruction
• Studios
Combination of lectures and labs
Primarily focused on STEM courses

3. History of Collaborative Learning Spaces Cont.
• Collaborative Learning Classrooms
Studio based learning backed up by research based pedagogies
• SCALE-UP
Student-Centered Active Learning Environment with Upside-down Pedagogies
Pioneered at North Carolina State University in 1990’s

4. UW-Madison Collaborative Learning Classrooms
• 40 Collaborative Learning Classrooms
o 18 General Assignment
o Capacity range: 24 – 84 seats
o Total seats: 699
o Total square footage: 15,857 Sq. Ft. / 22.6 Sq. Ft. per seat on average
o Average Weekly Use: 21.6 Classes Per Week
o 22 Departmental
o Capacity range: 18 – 153 seats
o Total seats: 1,362
o Total square footage: 41,653 Sq. Ft. / 30.5 Sq. Ft. per seat on average
o Average Weekly Use: 16.7 Classes Per Week
• Student Population
o 29,931 Undergraduate Students

5. Peer Institutions
• University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
o 26 Collaborative Learning Classrooms
o Capacity range: 27 – 171 seats
o 30,975 Undergraduate Students
• University of Iowa
o 12 Collaborative Learning Classrooms
o Capacity range: 24 – 81 seats
o 24,476 Undergraduate Students
• Indiana University – Bloomington
o 33 Collaborative Learning Classrooms
o Capacity range: 18 – 96 seats
o 33,429 Undergraduate Students
• UNC-Chapel Hill
o 18 Collaborative Learning Classrooms
o Capacity range: 19 – 72 seats
o 18,715 Undergraduate Students
• Ohio State – Columbus Campus
o 6 Collaborative Learning Classrooms
o Capacity range: 26 – 65 seats
o 45,946 Undergraduate Students
• Northwestern
o 19 Collaborative Learning Classrooms
o Capacity range: 24 – 60 seats
o 8,353 Undergraduate Students

6. Sterling Hall 2301
Capacity range: 48 seats
Remodeled in 2014
Group work monitors
Front projection
Mobile whiteboards
Utilization: 21.86 classes
per week

7. Sterling Hall 2425
Capacity range: 36 seats
Remodeled in 2014
Group work monitors
Front projection
Mobile whiteboards
Utilization: 24.24 classes
per week

8. Sterling Hall 3425
Capacity range: 36 seats
Remodeled in 2014
Group work monitors
Front projection
Mobile whiteboards
Utilization: 26.12 classes
per week

9. Ingraham Hall 122
Capacity: 48 seats
Mobile whiteboards/Group work monitors
Utilization: 32.54 Classes Per Week

10. Educational Sciences 212
Capacity: 64 seats
Utilization: 24.03 Classes per week
Shared writing surfaces & monitors
Central monitor ‘Scoreboard’

11. Ingraham Hall Room 115
Capacity: 48 seats
Fixed and mobile whiteboards
6 group work monitors
Front projection

12. Ingraham Hall Room 214
Mobile & fixed whiteboards
Capacity: 54 seats
Moveable tables and chairs
9 group work monitors – connected to
wirelessly

13. WisCEL - Collaborative Learning Spaces
• WisCEL
Wisconsin Collaboratory for Enhanced
Learning
Began hosting courses during the spring
semester of 2012
Operate in Wendt Commons and Helen C.
White library
Five spaces total
Hybrid spaces for studying and instruction
Capacity: 24 -132 Seats

14. WisCEL Collaborative Learning Spaces – Wendt Commons

15. WisCEL - Collaborative Learning Spaces - H.C. White 3250

16. Wisconsin School of Business - Collaborative Learning
Classroom
• Wisconsin School of Business
Collaborative Learning Classroom – Room
2290 & 2294
Capacity: 114 seats
Can be divided into two classrooms via a
moveable partition wall – a larger space
seating 72 and a smaller space seating 42.
Dedicated monitor for each 6 person table
Mobile whiteboards
Dedicated PC for each student

17. School of Nursing - Collaborative Learning Classrooms
• Signe Skott Cooper Hall
Rooms 1321 & 1331
Two Collaborative Learning Classrooms
Capacity: 153 seats
Mobile whiteboards
Shared monitors for students
Dedicated monitor for each 9 person table
Microphones at each table for easy
communication in a large class setting

18. University of Minnesota - Twin Cities - Bruininks Hall 114