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In their recent piece "Spaces Matter," Insider Higher Ed discusses modern classrooms and features the ongoing efforts here at Rutgers to introduce classrooms designed for active learning. In a broad discussion of the need for universities to tap into active learning's potential to advance learning outcomes for all students, the author cites Rutgers efforts in meeting that demand here in New Brunswick. Read the…
This past summer, DCS continued working to ensure our classroom technology is up-to-date and reflective of the evolving needs of Rutgers-New Brunswick faculty. The annual "evergreening" undertaken by our Technical Services & Operations team helps keep rooms state-of-the-art, cycle out old equipment before it reaches end-of-life, and introduce new features to facilitate new teaching approaches.
Since launching the Digital Classroom Podium Project in 2012, we have designed six version of the original podium that reflect the learning and space requirements of different classrooms. This summer, we focused on right-sizing the equipment in…
Join us for a day of presentations, workshops, panels, and more sessions related to active learning. The Rutgers Active Learning Symposium (RALS) serves as the Active Learning Community's once-a-year opportunity to come together with one another and guests to share teaching principles and practices in this exciting area. This years RALS will be on Monday May 23rd, entirely online and feature a keynote presentation and workshop from Dr. Stephen L. Chew. Dr. Chew has been a professor of psychology at Samford University since 1993. Trained as a cognitive…
We are very pleased to share the date for this year's Rutgers Active Learning Symposium (RALS). RALS will be held virtually on Monday, May 23rd. It will feature presentations, workshops, panel discussions, poster sessions, and - new to this year - a lightning round in which presenters will have five minutes to share on a topic related to active learning. The first step in building the 2022 Rutgers Active Learning Symposium is hearing from you. If you would like to lead a session, please complete a RALS Proposal Form to let us…
Many DCS classrooms can be used to make recordings of class meetings. These rooms are equipped with cameras and microphones that record the instructor, and in some rooms, the students. The first step to recording, is learning what capability your classroom has. To help you quickly do that, we've added a new Classroom Feature to each classroom page. Use the Find a Classroom page to look up your room and view its information. Each page now includes a field for recording capability that indicates if a room has a camera that can record video, a microphone that can record audio,…