- Some College classrooms (including two CAEN computer labs) are equipped as flexible learning spaces through the use of highly flexible furniture and integrated technology.
- These classrooms can be reconfigured for multiple uses, such as lecture-style teaching, allowing for student collaborative group work, or engaging in a discussion.
- Many rooms also have wall-mounted monitors that can be used to display content from the instructor lecturn, or individual student laptop connections at each station if needed.
- Information relating to these spaces can be found at the Michigan News Article: Setting the desks free: How flexible classrooms impact learning, teaching
Availability and Features
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Capacity | Movable Furniture | Movable Whiteboards | Perimeter Whiteboards | Wall-mounted Monitors | Extended Reality (XR) |
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| Beyster 1690 | 46 |  |
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| Chrysler 133 | 85 | |
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| Dow 2150 | 62 | |
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| EECS 4440 (CAEN Lab) | 35 | |
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| EWRE 104 | 46 | |
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| FXB 1008 | 60 | |
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| FXB 1032 | 25 | |
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| GFL 224 (CAEN Lab) | 48 | |
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| GGBL 1025 | 32 | |
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| GGBL 1045 | 24 | |
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| GGBL 2147 | 56 | |
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| GGBL 2153 | 56 | |
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Changing Layouts
All furniture in these rooms can be easily wheeled around or folded/nested as needed. Instructors can create a variety of layouts specific to their class needs, ranging from rows for traditional lectures, pods for group collaboration, and larger clusters or circles for whole-class discussions.
There is no inherent default furniture layout. Instructors can teach their students on how they would like the room configured, and students can arrange the furniture as needed before the start of each class.
Use of Wall-Mounted Monitors
Many rooms have wall-mounted monitors around the periphery, which can be connected-to in a few ways:
- Instructor computer or tablet:
- HDMI or VGA cable at the instructor podium/station
- Wirelessly via “CAEN-Presenter” AirPlay network
- Student laptop via HDMI or VGA connection at each monitor
- CAEN desktop computers, where available
Instructor Use of Monitors
Instructors use the touch panel on the lectern to send their source to the monitors. This is done by pressing one of the buttons under the Student Displays column:
Note: In most rooms, if the projector is being used along with the monitors, both must show the same source. This limitation is denoted on the touch screen with a small “linked” icon drawn between the Projector and Student Displays columns.
Student Use of Monitors
Rooms are being upgraded to a new button-based interface at each student station monitor that is used to select the monitor source:
Students can press these buttons at any time to switch the monitor source, and the button lights up to show which source is active. If none of the buttons are lit, the monitor turned off after a period of no signal (often 15 minutes). Pressing any of the buttons will power it back on.
Note that rooms without CAEN computers at each student monitor omit that button from interface:
