College of Architecture | Institute of Design | Center for Learning Innovation
invite you to the Symposium
Empowering Collaborative Culture through Active Learning Spaces
Internal Multidisciplinary Symposium
with Invited IIT Speakers
OPEN TO ALL
Friday, October 23, 2020 9:00AM-1:00PM
How could IIT's LEARNING CULTURE and LEARNING SPACES support.....
Active Learning
Discussing how space becomes a learning tool to support human and student-centered approaches.
Explicating the basic principles of active learning pedagogy and the impact of digital learning tech on physical space needs and perception.
Discussing how traditional, formal learning spaces tend to inculcate and perpetuate static, passive modes of teaching and the benefits of informal spaces.
Considering how to foster the collaborative and student-centered dynamics that drive active learning to empower collaboration between students, the engagement between faculty and students, and collaboration between departments.
Active Collaboration
Opening a dialogue regarding developing a collaborative culture and how it affects the practical use of space across the campus, by bringing together multiple intelligences of students-faculty-staff across multiple disciplines.
Highlighting the diverse needs of each discipline toward enhancing students’ and faculty’s success and to identify and uncover opportunities for collaboration and innovation across the community.
Leveraging our internal expertise and engaging the institutional community in meaningful discussions about how to understand, benefit from, and improve our learning spaces, by adapting facilities to support the evolving learning culture as well as to align with Illinois Tech’s strategic goals.
Active Legacy
Growing into the future - the opening of Kaplan Institute, the first new academic building in forty years on this historic campus, inspires us to reflect on, discuss, and reimagine the dynamic relationship between physical spaces and learning; architecture and pedagogy and the future following history.
Considering the range of IIT’s current physical and digital platforms and their baseline affordances.
Engaging and moving past implicit limitations by exploring current IIT’s physical spaces and new opportunities in utilizing unused spaces.
Schedule
PART 1- Introduction
9:00
Welcome
Host - Cynthia Vranas Olsen, Director of Mies van der Rohe Society
Peter Kilpatrick, Provost
Jamshid Mohammadi, Dean, Graduate College, and Interim Dir, CLI
Reed Kroloff, Dean, College of Architecture
Denis Weil, Dean, Institute of Design
9:20
Opening Presentation
Learning Cultures, Learning Spaces — Why design matters
Anat Mor-Avi, Architecture / Kristin Jones, Architecture / Ruth Schmidt, Design
While all of us regularly inhabit and function within learning and cultural spaces — both physical and digital — the disciplines of architecture and design play a unique role in conceiving of, programmatically developing … more
PART 2- Active Learning and Active Collaboration: “Pecha-Kucha” presentations
9:50
Institutional Supports for active Learning and Collaboration at IIT
Carol Emmons / Kelly Roark / Lital Pascar, Center for Learning Innovation
The Center for Learning Innovation (CLI) was established to provide pedagogical, technological and cultural support to Illinois Tech faculty. This presentation will describe an array of options potentially available to faculty, more
10:00
Space as Empowerment
Ullica Segerstrale, Social Sciences, Lewis College of Science and Letters
Settings typically send signals about how they are to be used. We don’t typically disobey these, and it may be hard to do so anyway. Nailed down benches in classrooms are just that - nailed down - more
10:10
Promoting Positive Well-Being: Considerations for Learning Spaces
Nicole Ditchman, Psychology, Lewis College of Science and Letters
Positive psychology is the scientific study of strengths, behaviors, and environments that promote well-being and enable individuals and communities to thrive. more
10:20
Library space as a reflection of changes in learning culture
Devin Savage, Dean of Libraries, Paul V. Galvin Library
It should not be a surprise to anyone in higher education to hear that students study at the library, and that they are doing so in increasing numbers. However, the way in which students study, work, and learn together has shifted in recent years. more
10:30
Synthesis Reed Kroloff, Dean, College of Architecture
10:40
Break
10:50
Questions for Physical Spaces in Digital Times
Lance Fortnow, Dean, College of Computing
COVID-19 has accelerated a number of trends including working from home, on-line ordering of groceries, food delivery, in-home entertainment and much more. Notably we’ve seen a necessary quick and dramatic shift in academics - more
11:00
The Entrepreneurial Mindset as a Model for an Effective Learning Culture
Nik Rokop, Stuart School of Business
Life long learning, soft skills, ethics, diversity, inclusion, equity, innovation, and entrepreneurship…while it may be obvious that all these are important for success in entrepreneurship, how do these concepts work to enhance the learning culture of a technological university? more
11:10
Models of Active Learning in Armour College of Engineering
Geoffrey Williamson, Armour College of Engineering
COVID-19 has accelerated a number of trends including working from home, on-line ordering of groceries, food delivery, in-home entertainment and much more. more
11:20
Leading a culture of innovative pedagogy through future learning spaces
Einat Gil, School of Education, Seminar Hakibutzim
The design of learning spaces became a current topic in the practice of higher education institutions, k-12 schools as well as in Horizon, OECD and academic research reports. more
11:30
Synthesis Reed Kroloff, Dean, College of Architecture
PART 3 - Active Legacy: Roundtable discussions
11:40
Provocation and break out
Cynthia Vranas Olsen, Director of Mies van der Rohe Society
Reed Kroloff, Dean, College of Architecture
11:50
Roundtable discussions
Choice of 8 (first-come, first served basis)
12:30
Remarks from the roundtables
Self-appointed representatives
1:00
Wrap-up
Anat Mor-Avi and Kristin Jones