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The Discovery Learning Center:
- will be a new 45,000 square foot interactive, learner-based, reconfigurable,
technology-rich collaboratory.
- will cost $15.3 million for the facility and its infrastructure
equipment, with approximately half of the funding to come from private sources and half from the State of Colorado.
- will begin to address the critical space shortage in the College;
(the Engineering Center was built over 30 years ago to house less than two thirds
the current number of students and less than half the faculty, at a time when the
Collegeís research budget was less than 15% of its current level, adjusted for inflation!)
- will have initial, interdisciplinary anchor tenants such as the
Center for LifeLong Learning and Design, the Colorado Space Grant Consortium, the
Colorado Center for Information Storage, the Learning Technologies Group and complementary activities of the Interdisciplinary Telecommunications Program, with each tenant meeting the criteria for the new Discovery Learning approach.
- will house activities related to the development of both the cognitive
and physical components of learning technologies, collaborating with the Boulder
Campusí Alliance for Technology Learning and Society (ATLAS) initiative.
- will have as a guiding principle ëoutside-iní industry and government
collaborations in addition to the traditional outreach activities and student internships
- through the use of efficiently designed common spaces, will accommodate
multiple users and serve large numbers of students, faculty and collaborators.
- will have a communications core that will make the facility a
resource not only for the College, but for the Campus, the University, the community
and remote learners, creating an advanced learning network.
- will be a staging area for new ideas, connections and practices
and will provide a testbed for new learning technologies
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