Teaching and learning in the VLCC: actions, reactions and emerging practice in a very large computing centre.

Buckner, Kathy; Davenport, Elisabeth

Abstract

What happens to human computer interaction when the
walls of a physical teaching laboratory are removed?
We present the case of a very large (and new)
computing centre (VLCC) in a technical university in
Central Scotland. In this large multi-user computing
space teaching is accommodated in a number of raked
clusters or pods (local parlance), that are scheduled to
function periodically as classrooms. Using a ‘social
computing’ framework, we present observations and
findings from a study that reveals how habits and
perceptions from a previous habitat initially affect
practice in a radically different environment, but are
modified as practitioners adapt to the environment

• Conference Name: ECCE 11
• Start Date: Sep 8, 2002
• End Date: Sep 11, 2002
• Publication Date: 2002
• Deposit Date: May 31, 2010
• Publicly Available Date: May 31, 2010
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Pages: 355-360
• Book Title: 11th European Conference on Cognitive Ergonomics
• Keywords: Learning and teaching strategies; adaptive practice;socio/technical analysis; social computing
• Public URL: http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/3319
• Contract Date: May 31, 2010