Book chapter
Transform, Interact, Learn, Engage (TILE): Creating Learning Spaces that Transform Undergraduate Education
Cases on Higher Education Spaces: Innovation, Collaboration, and Technology, pp.165-185
Information Science Reference
2013
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-2673-7.ch009
Abstract
The objective of this chapter is to describe and analyze the factors that enabled a new strategic vision and rapid change for course delivery at a large, decentralized research university. The authors outline how the university leadership facilitated collaboration among faculty, staff, and technology specialists to design, implement, and assess the value of special technology-rich learning environments. This case focuses on the following factors: the issue of balancing top-down (administrative) and bottom up (faculty-led) approaches that often characterize campus change; the role that external effects had on the ability to move the campus in the direction of a new type of classroom and teaching; an analysis of the University of Iowa's decision-making structure, which sought a balance between the decentralized structure that characterizes faculty's control over the curriculum and the centralized structure that characterizes decisions about facilities; the importance of a faculty-development program; and the role of assessment in evaluating the initiative.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Transform, Interact, Learn, Engage (TILE): Creating Learning Spaces that Transform Undergraduate Education
- Creators
- Beth Ingram - University of IowaSteve Fleagle - University of IowaMaggie Jesse - University of IowaJean Florman - University of IowaSam Van Horne - University of Iowa
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Publication Details
- Cases on Higher Education Spaces: Innovation, Collaboration, and Technology, pp.165-185
- DOI
- 10.4018/978-1-4666-2673-7.ch009
- Publisher
- Information Science Reference; Hershey, PA
- Number of pages
- 21
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 2013
- Academic Unit
- Economics
- Record Identifier
- 9984962889702771
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