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6 new grants to consider in the new year

eSchool News

JANUARY 6, 2019

School leaders consistently identify high costs and shrinking budgets as a top barrier to implementing new technology tools and programs. Steelcase Active Learning Center Grants include furniture, design review, installation, onsite training, and a Learning Environment Evaluation measurement tool.

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A Principal's Reflections

MAY 27, 2018

The USDOE’s Office of Educational Technology places emphasis on students and educators having access to a robust and comprehensive infrastructure when and where they need it for learning. Check out Steelcase for an array of ideas and solutions specific to education.

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How Furniture and Flexible Seating Is Turning Classroom Design Into a Fad

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JANUARY 4, 2018

Designers are connecting with places like the University of Melbourne , Steelcase, and Meteor Education who are doing the action research on current best practices. It means remaining nimble and agile in the way we design, so that pedagogy and technology tools can engage and ignite learners. Designers are researchers and learners.

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Can a simple classroom redesign inspire student achievement?

eSchool News

JULY 20, 2017

The chairs detach from the desks and the tables tilt up and down to accommodate the use of new tools, like interactive white boards and handheld technology. Rolling chairs are an essential part of Steelcase Active Learning centers. Here, students gather around teacher, Julie Marshall for a lesson.

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To Get More Students to Office Hours, Colleges Rethink the Faculty Office

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FEBRUARY 7, 2019

One of the most dramatic examples of rethinking the faculty office can be found at Cornell Tech, a new university under construction on Roosevelt Island in Manhattan, a joint venture between Cornell University and Technion–Israel Institute of Technology. The first academic building there has no dedicated faculty offices.

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What factors help active learning classrooms succeed?

Robert Talbert, Ph.D.

JANUARY 11, 2023

I’ve been studying ALCs for a while now — it was the subject of my sabbatical at Steelcase in 2017-2018 and this paper on the subject that resulted. But once installed, they sit unused (or misused), like so many overhyped technologies before them and at about ten times the price. Keep in mind that ALCs are not cheap.

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New grant will provide active learning spaces to schools

eSchool News

DECEMBER 2, 2015

Steelcase Education grant leverages classroom space to implement new teaching practices. Steelcase Education on Dec. Up to 15 grant recipients will have the opportunity to install one of four learning environments featuring Steelcase Education’s state-of-the-art furniture and technology.

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Four rules for hybrid meetings

Robert Talbert, Ph.D.

MARCH 16, 2023

In 2017 when I was on sabbatical at Steelcase , the Steelcase Education team had an all-hands meeting every Monday morning. Zoom and Teams might have their downsides, but the technology for online meetings is light-years beyond what it was just 5 years ago. So I have a particular agenda with this topic.

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What it's like to teach in an active learning classroom

Robert Talbert, Ph.D.

MARCH 23, 2022

As most readers know, I spent the 2017-2018 academic year on sabbatical at Steelcase doing research on active learning spaces, which resulted in this comprehensive literature review paper co-authored with architect Anat Mor-Avi. This introduces so much friction (technological and social) in the group work process that the group shuts down.

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In the marketplace: Funding for active learning, a helping hand for innovative programs, and an interactive book program

eSchool News

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Tech-savvy educators know they must stay on top of the myriad changes and trends in education to learn how teaching and learning can best benefit from technology’s near-constant change. ClassLink , a provider of single sign-on and rostering solutions for education, announced a new relationship with Istation , an e-learning program.

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What I Learned On My ‘Secret Sabbatical’ As a Scholar-in-Residence at a Private Company

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JUNE 12, 2018

Last fall I started my first day on the job as an embedded faculty member with a corporation—as a scholar-in-residence at Steelcase Education. Actually intern is probably the best lens through which to look at what I’ve been doing at Steelcase for the last eight months. One such practice I saw at Steelcase was remote work.

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