change management
From:
http://connect.educause.edu/Library/EDUCAUSE+Review/DesignoftheLearningSpaceL/40557
Before taking these steps to determine the principles that will guide the process of designing the learning space, the planning team should consider changes in life-cycles, in how people learn, in the technologies used for teaching, and in the students themselves.
Life-Cycles
The life-cycles of buildings are much longer than the life-cycles of technologies or even of learning theories. Plans usually allow for buildings that will last fifty to eighty years. In contrast, a technology refresh cycle suggests that computer hardware should be replaced every two to four years and that nondigital assets such as blackboards, desks, and tables should be refreshed with an eight- to ten-year cycle. These rapid changes are requiring us to rethink how we teach and learn. Effective practices are emerging around these very new technologies as users collectively figure out what can be done with them. Discussions of space must thus include how to meet this rapid change. The planning team should ask: “Can we be sure that the spaces built today will still be useful later in their life-cycle?” “How do we support, update, and modify these spaces in a rapidly changing environment?”
