Windows of opportunity in electronic classrooms

  • Authors:
  • Ben Shneiderman;Maryann Alavi;Kent Norman;Ellen Yu Borkowski

  • Affiliations:
  • Univ. of Maryland, College Park;Univ. of Maryland, College Park;Univ. of Maryland, College Park;Univ. of Maryland, College Park

  • Venue:
  • Communications of the ACM
  • Year:
  • 1995

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Abstract

Paradigm-shifting landmark buildings are cherished by their occupants and remembered because they reshape our expectations of schools, homes, or offices. Classic examples include Thomas Jefferson's communal design of the “academical village” at the University of Virginia where faculty and students lived close to classrooms, Frank Lloyd Wright's organic harmony with nature in Fallingwater (in western Pennsylvania) where the waterfall sounds and leafy surroundings offered a stress-reducing getaway for an urban executive, or Kevin Roche's open glass-walled Ford Foundation (in New York City) that promoted new team-oriented management strategies.