DioT S15 Final - Connected Learning

The aim of the project is to have a Flexible studio of the future. Why flexible???In what way??? Every educational institute has students of varied learning and working styles and it is very important to be able to provide them with spaces which boosts their interest and potential of work. This thought formed the base of the concept leading us to monitor noise and number of people in each space and providing this information to students so that they are able to find the spot that will help them be most productive.

Studio-based classrooms provide opportunities for collaboration and hands-on learning, while distance education classes feel...distant. How do we mesh the benefits of studio classrooms with the growing trend of distance education? A few of the many problems include: - Knowing which students are present, and how to leverage different skills and learning styles from or across a distance. - Easily knowing who has a question or wants to speak since visibility is more limited. - Knowing whether or not students are interested without direct eye contact.

colabCase is an object/system that clearly communicates a student;s skills, background, and his/her availability to help. This initiates a culture of sharing knowledge and swapping skills, taking the idea of "interdisciplinary learning" to a new level.

Students go through lots of consumables, like paper, markers, foamcor and batteries in a studio space. Administrative staff is often not located in the same space, so they are unaware of when these items are running low. Refills solves this problem by creating a home base for these items, which monitors how much remains. As items are removed there is an active monitor and an email is sent to the administration to let know when materials reach low levels, so more can be ordered.

Tools like wire strippers, pliers, X-acto knives, or soldering irons are often purchased by a university, but their tendency to disappear or not be around when students need them can lead to tension and an inability to finish projects in the timely manner desired. Utilities addresses this issue by putting bluetooth tags on these objects so that they can be checked out of the utility cabinet and the knowledge of who has what tools becomes clear.

It is becoming more and more common for studios to have shared spaces that are not permanently controlled by any one person or group. This can make having a meeting or a place to work unexpectedly difficult, because a student doesn’t know before they arrive if space is available and formal scheduling of spaces is rarely done. Occupancy addresses this issue by making the current as well as historic occupancy level of a space known along with the noise level.

We see the learning space of the future as a connected system linking people to people, leveraging their skill-sets and backgrounds through incentivizing helping others and creating more well-rounded students.

The future of studio space learning will be focusing on how to help people generate insights, ideas, being creative and efficient. Our design will maximally use the power of crowd sourcing to help the team to generate as many ideas as possible, validating them with the public while relying on the wisdom of the crowd to solve the problem.

Modulate is a flexible ecosystem revolutionizing group projects by facilitating a productive environment anywhere. It consists of three components that improve your creative experience.