Group agreed on 9:00 on Mondays for future meetings.
Common ideas
- Learning commons includes academic support
- Vision = opportunity to integrate academic support – (writing center, tutoring) Writing Center to move to library.
- Integrate with work in library – research, multimedia, etc.
- Library is the heart, expands from there. Media is heavily developed and will integrate with learning commons.
Actions
- Form sub-committee for students. Learning commons should double academic support and use of library.
- Sub-Committee = How to integrate Services
- Sub-Committee = Issues of furniture, what to order etc. Different types of furniture. Doug Simpson could help with design of space. Learning commons are strong in libraries. Multimedia is a key player in learning commons.
- Sub-committee – Kevin and Joe are to send distribution list to Rachelle– start right away.
Other observations
- The Learning Center as a big room without special design.
- Tutoring this summer – several places to meet in library – design the space to the function.
- Space and website = sub-committee for website use. Use new MSU blog until we have developed our own website. We have Student Development Website.
- Learning commons is good for face-to-face interaction.
- Let the students make the path and then pave the way.
The next meeting Monday, March 16 at 9 a.m. will meet in Library 209 and tour the library space suitable for learning commons.
A tip of the hat to Carolyn Kile for actually taking the notes. I myself just cut and pasted them.
A tip of the hat to Joe Hughes for getting this set up so quickly.
This is great! It really shows me where to expand my blog. I think that sometime in the future I might try to write a book to go along with my blog, but we will see…Good post with useful tips and ideas