Prototype Incorporates High Technology Ideas for Design of Future Lewis and Clark Center

Prototype Incorporates High Technology Ideas for Design of Future Lewis and Clark Center
Current Command and General Staff College students have the chance to get a sneak peek at the future classrooms of the Lewis and Clark Center.

A model classroom was built in the warehouse of Eisenhower Hall as a prototype so students and instructors can become accustomed to what will be their future surroundings.

"The centerpiece of the Lewis and Clark Center is the educational wing, which will hold 96 classrooms," said Lynn Rolf, director of Educational Technology.

"Our dilemma was to either to accept 96 mistakes or build a model and see if we can identify any mistakes now," Rolf said.

Rolf has been in the field of educational technology since 1993 and has learned that the key to success for a classroom involves the primary users of the classroom - staff, faculty, students and information technology personnel.

"And so we involved everyone and went around the country to look at how other military installations and colleges, like Harvard and Kansas State University had their classrooms set up. As a result of all we heard and saw, we validated our own classroom and tried to set the conditions of the classroom for success," he said.

The prototype classroom includes all of the computers, televisions and technology the future classrooms will have. It is because of all of this technology that the model was built.

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