The classes will now meet in two-hour sessions twice a week, with no lab or recitation. The studio sessions will be conducted by two professors and two teaching assistants, he said. The new studio will include 40 computers linked by an intranet, running HTML documents to be viewed like one would view the World Wide Web, Decker said. Twenty studio tables will be set up with two computers per table. Four students will be assigned to each table for the duration of the term, he said.
Collaboration is built into the system.
It's about teaching yourself while you're teaching your lab partner. The students compare notes and learn together. The cavernous lab of Ackert 210 was once home to rows of separate, isolated workstations where students listened to taped lectures and performed experiments. It was an area of heavy construction by the first week of June. The tables were in place and overhangs from the ceiling shortened the height of the room.