News
CourseAtlas launches at Rutgers–New Brunswick
The CourseAtlas scheduling software platform has launched at Rutgers–New Brunswick to schedule Fall 2020 courses. This state-of-the-art software, along with improved scheduling processes, will enable course scheduling that is more responsive to student, instructor, and department needs. The benefits include making it easier for students to get the courses they need and want, reducing bus travel, and allowing academic departments to have their…
Four New Active Learning Spaces
As the way that students learn evolves, so must the modern classroom. This semester, Rutgers-New Brunswick has made giant strides toward this goal with the introduction of four brand-new, state-of-the-art Active Learning Classrooms (ALCs). The ALCs are designed to facilitate interaction, collaboration, and other approaches to learning through which students can work with ideas and one another. Among these new rooms are two Interactive Lecture…
Spotlight
Introducing the DCL
The Digital Classroom Lectern, or DCL, is the newest addition to the family of Digital Classroom Services systems. Born out of the need to provide our standard classroom technology in smaller classroom environments, the DCL employs a reduced footprint so that it takes up less valuable teaching space. Despite its small size, the Lectern packs a big punch, with a built-in Mac computer, Blu-ray player, and VGA/HDMI connections for portable devices…
The Raritan River, A Swiftly Flowing Classroom and Lab
This Spotlight article is part of the An Ecosystem for Learning series, in which we discuss spaces, programs, and people who are helping to create a university in which classrooms and courses are linked with other spaces and contexts, and students are encouraged to actively engage in the learning process--to create, collaborate, and innovate during their time at Rutgers.
For many in the Rutgers community, the Raritan River is a scenic…