Learning Commons. Evolution and Collaborative Essentials

✍ Scribed by Barbara Schader (Eds.)

• Publisher: Chandos Publishing
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 441
• Series: Chandos Information Professional Series
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book examines successfully planned and implemented learning commons at several different academic institutions around the world. These case studies provide a methodology for effective planning, implementation and assessment. Practical information is provided on how to collaborate with campus stakeholders, estimate budgeting and staffing and determine the equipment, hardware and software needs. Also provided are memoranda of understandings (MOUs), planning checklists and assessment tools. This book reflects a unifying focus on both the evolution of learning commons to learning spaces and the collaborative aspect of co-creating learning spaces.

• Unique case studies representing very different types of Information Commons, Learning Commons, Faculty Commons and other Learning Spaces
• International breadth and depth is assured through inclusion of case studies from Canadian, New Zealand, Australian and European institutions in addition to six in the United States
• Practical checklists of planning and implantation considerations, as well as memorandum of understanding (MOU) templates, form the appendices

✦ Table of Contents

Content:
Front matter, Pages i-iii
Copyright, Page iv
List of figures, tables and box, Pages viii-xii
Preface, Pages xix-xxi, Barbara Schader
About the authors, Pages xxiii-xxx
1 - From Information Commons to Learning Commons and learning spaces: an evolutionary context, Pages 1-36, Mary M. Somerville, Sallie Harlan
2 - Circle of service: a collaborative Information Commons planning model, Pages 37-55,57-61,63-67, Barbara I. Dewey
3 - The Information Commons at the University of Calgary: building on collaboration – a case study, Pages 69-95,97-107,109-111,113-115, Susan Beatty
4 - Building for learning: synergy of space, technology and collaboration, Pages 117-179,181-189,191-199, Susan Thompson, Gabriela Sonntag
5 - The Saltire Centre and the Learning Commons concept, Pages 201-225, Jan Howden
6 - Transforming library space for student learning: the Learning Commons at Ohio University’s Alden Library, Pages 227-273,275,277, Gary A. Hunt
7 - Supporting the Learning Commons concept in ‘real life’, Pages 279-296, Jennifer Stringer
8 - Putting learners at the centre: the Learning Commons journey at Victoria University, Pages 297-323, Shay Keating, Philip G Kent, Belinda McLennan
9 - Improving student life, learning and support through collaboration, integration and innovation, Pages 325-358, Crit Stuart
10 - The Information Commons at the University of Auckland; improving student life, learning and support through co-location, collaboration, integration and innovation, Pages 359-404, Hester Mountifield
11 - Beyond Facebook: thinking of the Learning Commons as a social network, Pages 405-427, Jill McKinstry
Index, Pages 429-437