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LSC Guide II: questions that matter

The LSC Guide to the LSC Roadmap captures questions emerging from LSC Roundtables (2016 -2018), organizing them in a format useful for those responsible for spaces that matter in the undergraduate setting. The notion of a Yardstick for Planning was introduced at the first LSC Roundtable at the Georgia Institute of Technology. It is metaphorical […]

From the Archives: A Portfolio of Questions from LSC Webinars (2010 – 2015)

From the Archives-LSC Webinar Questions 2010-2015 Planning Toward Substantive, Sustainable Transformation of the Undergraduate Learning Environment A Portfolio: Questions extracted and distilled from the archive of LSC webinars A prompt for those responsible for the physical learning environment.

From the Archives: Sandboxing

The value of sandboxing as an essential planning strategy is a major lesson learned over the past two decades of attention to learning spaces in the undergraduate setting. In planning physical environments for learning, a sandbox can be a metaphor for a gathering or space designated for exploring approaches to enhance learning in ways different from standard practice in […]

Enhancing the Effectiveness of Team Science

Enhancing the Effectiveness of Team Science, gives attention how teams works in the science research community that can be easily translated into a guide for teams responsible for the physical environment for learning on a campus. Whether it be focusing on new or repurposed spaces or as part of an ongoing institutional focus on learning […]

Branches from the Same Tree

Branches from the Same Tree, one of the newest reports from the National Academics of Science, presents the case for The Integration of the Humanities and Arts with Sciences, Engineering and Medicine in Higher Education. The very title signals the impact that it will have on those responsible for spaces now being designed and constructed […]

Lessons Learned: Building Community – Transforming Institutions

This essay from the LSC Archives, Lessons learned: Building Community – Transforming Institutions, will be a major resource for the LSC Roundtables 2.0 scheduled for fall 2018 and early winter 2019. It speaks about the power of questions, the nature and complexity of change; it informs all stages of the process of setting and realizing […]

The LSC Guide: Planning for Assessing 21st Century Spaces for 21st Century Learners

How do you measure return on investment of time, energy and funds expended in shaping and sustaining physical environments serving 21st century learners? How does space influence the nature of the learning experience? How can focusing on what students are to become, on how learning happens drive the process of shaping and sustaining 21st century learning environments? This guide, […]

Leadership in Dissemination and Innovation Toward STEM Reform

The design of the LSC Roundtables was influenced by—and indeed inspired by—the resources assembled in From the Archives. Here, from 25 years ago, are words of wisdom about the role of leadership in reform, including questions leaders should be asking. The LSC Archives is a rich trove of resources from the almost two decades of facilities […]

Understanding Key Questions

Given what has been learned in recent years about shaping new spaces for undergraduate STEM communities and recognizing new challenges and opportunities facing 21st century students and society— including advances in science and technology, what questions should prospective clients be asking you— what are the critical “questions for the future?”