Students in an 8 a.m. principles of data management class talk among each other as they solve a data base problem. Sometimes they get up and write on a 6-foot whiteboard on wheels that doubles as a screen between tables of students in their extra-large classroom.
The room in Slaughter Hall seats 150 students and is meant to simulate the learning spaces in the Student Hall for Exploration and Development (SHED) that will hold classes next fall. The Slaughter classroom, dubbed the “betaSHED,” combines three rooms to give professors and students a preview of the large-scale learning environment.
Emanuel Griffin, a third-year computer science major from Brooklyn, N.Y., said it’s hard to learn when a professor stands in front of the room and lectures or reads from their Power Point slides.
“Here it’s really different because you take the material and then use it on…
