Overview
Casebook Concept
Seed Questions
Resources
• Classroom of the Future: General Resources
• Classroom of the Future Initiatives
• "Smart Classroom" Paradigms
• Research on Classroom of the Future
• Resources, Research, and Critique on the General Topic of the Instructional Use of Technology
Responses to Panel

• Smarter College Classrooms Home Page (site of Daniel Niemeyer, U. Colorado coordinator for classroom design and faculty member of U. Colorado School of Journalism. Niemeyer, who has a Ph.D. in Instructional Technology, consults widely on classroom design)
  • Selected Resources:
  • Classroom Design Principles
  • Photo Gallery of Smart Classrooms
  • Classroom Deisgn Resources
• Building the 21st Century School Now (NCSA, NCRTEC and ITEG )
  • Smart Class / School Design
  • Classroom Technologies (includes Quicktime tour)
• The Electronic Classroom (Workspace Resources)
• NASA Classroom of the Future Program

Classroom of the Future Initiatives

• San Diego County Office of Education Foundation
• UC Davis Initiative

"Smart Classroom" Paradigms

• Allegheny C. Smart Classroom
• Emory U.: "The 'Smart' Classroom from the Faculty Perspective"
• National U. of Singapore Smart Classroom
• Oberlin C.: "Classroom of the Future Arrives at Oberlin"
• Rensselaer Polytechnic Virtual Studio Classroom
• Rochester Institute of Technology NTID (National Technical Institute for the Deaf) Smart Classroom
• Stanford Univ. Flexible Class-Lab | About | Photos | Blueprints
• U. California, Santa Barbara Next-Generation Digital Classroom Initiative
• U. Iowa Experimental Learning Facility

Interesting K-12 Examples

• Charles F. Blackstock School Smart Classroom, Port Hueneme, CA

Alternative Understandings of "Classroom of the Future"

• My Classroom of the Future (Amber Rast)

Research on Classroom of the Future

• Center for Educational Technologies: Research Papers (Wheeling Jesuit U. / NASA Classroom of the Future Program)
• Creating the Classroom of the 21st Century Conference (H-Net Envisioning the Future)
• Tomasz Müldner & Robin A. Nicholl (Acadia U., Canada), "Computer-Supported Human Cooperation in Electronic Classrooms" (1996) (Journal of Universal Computer Science)

Resources, Research, and Critique on the General Topic of the Instructional Use of Technology

• Teaching with Information Technology Resources (Transcriptions Project, UC Santa Barbara)
• Palinurus: The Academy and the Corporation (Alan Liu, UC Santa Barbara)
  • Information Technology and the Academy: General Resources
  • Information Technology Initiatives in Higher Education
  • Critique of Information Technology in Higher Education
• Educause Review
• HEIRAlliance: Higher Education Information Resources Alliance ("designed to keep chief higher education executives informed about critical issues related to information technologies")
• Information Literacy Definitions ("quotes from numerous papers, representing various definitions of information literacy") (Information Literacy Group, U. Calgary)
• New Horizons in Scholarly Communication ("highlights trends affecting the process of creating, disseminating, retrieving, and using information for instruction and research at the university level") (Librarians Assoc. of U. California System)
  • I. Teaching and Research
• Teaching with Electronic Technology (Micahel L. Hall, U. Maryland)