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Dear Monique and Roberta,

I recently redesigned the Language Resource Center at Swarthmore College into a studio learning space.  We've just finished our first year and it's been very successful.  In addition to the Language Center Design book, I looked very closely at and presented ideas from a volume edited by Diane Oblinger of Educause on Learning Space Design.  That volume deals not specifically with Language Resource Centers, but with formal and informal learning spaces of various kinds and folds in lots of research and reference material.  It has chapters on Space as a Change agent and Rethinking Learning Spaces.  

http://www.educause.edu/LearningSpaces

I think there's no better place to experiment with learning space design than a staffed lab like the LRC and a set of faculty who are heavy users of media and technology.

Good Luck!

- mike


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> From: "Ledgerwood, Mike" <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: May 3, 2012 12:43:06 PM EDT
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Request for information on future directions for Multimedia Language Centres
> Reply-To: CALICO's CALL discussion list <[log in to unmask]>
> 
> If I might humbly recommend to this list the new "Language Center Design"
> volume published by the International Association for Language Learning
> Technology, I think those in Monique's position (and hello Monique from
> Alabama!) will find it very useful (and, in the interest of fairness, need
> to say I have a chapter in it as well).  The volume is very inexpensive
> and available from "Lulu".  It just so happens my own University is in the
> same situation as York.  I bought three copies of the volume and had all
> of the language faculty read it before we brought in a consultant to talk
> to the faculty about language centers Prof. Lance Askildson of Notre Dame
> University (who also has chapters in it and who will be the host of next
> month's CALICO with IALLT conference.)  For those going to that conference
> who are in the same situation I would strongly urge you to tour his Center
> at ND.  If you cannot attend that conference the videos he created for his
> center that can be found on his web site at http://cslc.nd.edu/ will give
> you a good idea of his facility.
> 
> Very best to all.
> 
> Mikle D. Ledgerwood, Ph.D.
> Professor of French and Linguistics
> Chair of World Languages and Cultures
> Samford University
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> (205) 726-2747
> 
> Past President of the International Association for Language Learning
> Technology
> 
> Graduate Faculty in Technology and Language Learning, State University of
> New York at Stony Brook
> 
> 



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