Solution
Solution Summary
Room Description
Transforming Our Teaching Methods and Education Spaces
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine is completing a $1M renovation of our learning spaces that will refresh classrooms and enable new approaches to graduate education. Project includes:
- Renovation of Mountcastle Auditorium used for lectures and seminars
- New 36-student classroom, PCTB 113, with flexible seating configurations, overhead projector, and whiteboard walls
- New Transform, Interact, Learn, Engage (TILE) classroom, PCTB 115. TILE classroom will accommodate 72 students at 9-person tables. Each table has 3 laptops and one microphone. Any of the 24 laptops can be directed to all 4 screens from the instructor’s podium. Remainder of wall space is covered with whiteboards. This space will support active learning approaches to graduate education and new experimental teaching methods.
Technology Description
Sympodium – an electronic pencil that enables slide annotation
Clickers – an audience response system to encourage student participation
Document cameras – allow the display of student’s work
STILE AV – a system that displays the instructor’s or student’s computers on projector screens
STILE Classroom Media
Classroom Photos
