DCS News
For this year's Take Your Child to Work Day, DCS welcomed some brand new Jr. Support Specialists to Rutgers. Children of DCS employees ranging in age from five to twelve were on campus to learn about how universities work, including how their parents maintain their classrooms' technology. It wasn't all technology though. Our Junior Support Specialists also learned about dinosaurs at the Geology Museum and played with exhibits at the Math and Science Learning Center. Finally, the kids of DCS also helped us keep an eye on…
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 Thursday May 18th at…
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…