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Interior Design Graduate Students Contributed Ideas to Futuristic Classroom in New EUC

September 16, 2016

students use new classroom technologiesLeft: students work in the new futuristic classroom in the Extended University Commons building.

Back in 2014 as the new Extended University Commons (EUC) building was still in the works and construction was soon to begin, CSUN designated one particular room to function as a “classroom of the future” with room for growth as newer technologies develop.

At the time, three graduate students in the Family & Consumer Sciences Interior Design program were invited by their professor, Anubhuti Thakur, to bring their expertise to the project.  The directive: the room needed to be technologically flexible to include various modes of teaching and learning, and incorporate concepts of active learning.

Alejandro Hernandez, Niloofar Khalighi and Victor Campos, collaborated with 6 students from Computer Information Technology, directed by Computer Science faculty Adam Kaplan, to design a classroom that could accommodate various modes of teaching and learning. While not every design element was used, their influence is palpable in the new EUC building, and the students' designs also contributed to their Masters' thesis projects, presented in spring 2015.

"The committee decided that this room would provide an excellent opportunity for students to collaborate on the creation of it. Professor Adam Kaplan from the Department of Computer Science and professor Anubhuti Thakur from the Department of Family and Consumer Science engaged students in their classes to work on developing the project’s initial outlines," said the story in CSUN Today.  Find out how the classroom turned out and see more photos in CSUN Today's story: Futuristic Classroom Enhances Active Learning for CSUN Students.

Get more details about the building from an earlier CSUN Today story.

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Jean O'Sullivan