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Classroom Design Guidelines

Historical Perspective:

• In recent years there has been an increased emphasis on the design of classrooms to make use of instructional technologies to enhance the learning environment.

• The Cornell Faculty Board on Information Technologies (FABIT) established the first campus guidelines for classroom design based on a collection of works from the University of Wisconsin - Madison, Cornell's School of Industrial Labor Relations, and Northwestern University. It defined in general terms three tier levels for teaching spaces.

FABIT Teaching Space Initiative:

• Based on FABIT's Planning for Learning Technologies Services report of January 1995, the Provost provided funding over two fiscal years to encourage innovation in instruction and enhance the university's service structure. The funded projects also provided the opportunity to achieve standardization in instructional media equipment through the centrally organized purchase of data/video projectors and other systems.
• Coincident with the Teaching Space Initiative, a Classroom Technologies group was created in Academic Technology Services to support the goals and efforts of the campus initiative.