Computing Resources
The Bagwell College of Education offers state-of-the-art facilities designed to foster interdisciplinary collaboration and research. Equipped with cutting-edge laboratory spaces and infrastructure, these facilities enable both faculty and students to engage in innovative research and resource sharing. The college’s labs are thoughtfully organized into three main categories: computer labs, research labs, and innovation labs, each providing specialized environments to support diverse academic and investigative pursuits.
Computer Labs
The School of Instructional Technology & Innovation (SITE) Labs -
- KH 2105 (Lab 1) with Dell optiplex 7080's - 2.9 GHz Intel Core i7-10700 eight-core CPU, Integrated Intel UHD Graphics 630, 16GB Ram, 512gb Hard Drive.
- KH 2101 (Lab 4) with Dell Optiplex 7000's with Intel Core i5-13500 (13th Gen), Intel UHD Graphics 770, 16GB ram and a 512GB hard drive.
- BEB 402 (Lab 5) with Dell 7090's - 2.5 GHz 11th Gen Intel Core i7 8-core processor, Integrated Intel UHD Graphics 750, 16GB of RAM, and a 256gb hard drive.
Labs may be reserved once technology classes have been scheduled. The labs are only available for use by classes that are engaging in the use of technology.
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Research Labs
The Interactive Research Methods Lab (IRML) was officially launched in November 2019, and it is located in room BEB 403 of the
Bagwell College of Education. The lab offers an innovative space providing students,
faculty, staff, and the public with personalized instruction and practical experience
in generating exceptional research design. The IRML provides a transdisciplinary intersection
that supports and promotes excellence in research learning and practice. Dedicated
to advanced, inventive designs of inquiry. IRML's commitment extends to ensure that
the vocabulary of the research world does not prohibit advanced research understanding.
This, coupled with engaging technologies focused on user experience, creates democratic,
open access to the most complex, modern research theories through simplified, targeted
design.
Innovation Labs
The AVATAR Lab is a state-of-the-art laboratory in which students and faculty utilize mixed-reality technology to interact with avatars of children and adults, simulating a variety of situations and challenges teachers can encounter. The student avatars each have their unique personalities, and the scenarios have low, medium and high settings requiring varying levels of problem-solving. The lab enables education majors to receive real-time feedback from their peers and instructors as they engage with the avatars, which can be programmed to be students ranging from second grade to high school. The student avatars have abilities and personalities such as an advanced student, an introvert, a rule-follower and the class clown, and will act accordingly, depending on how the teacher is conducting class. Faculty and undergraduate students in the BCOE are also using the lab as a research resource.
The Innovation Lab was established in Spring 2018 by the School of Instructional Technology and Innovation
with a bold vision to serve as Bagwell's incubator for educational innovation. The
Innovation Lab serves KSU faculty, staff, students as well as K-12 students, teachers,
leaders, district personnel and other key strategic partners. The lab is helping to
create a culture of innovation in the Bagwell College of Education and supports faculty,
staff, students, and administrators in developing an innovator’s mindset. The Innovation
Lab is also used by faculty and students as a research resource to help with the testing
of innovative high-impact pedagogies. For example, faculty teaching undergraduate
instructional technology courses have been conducting research in the Lab on how
to better prepare pre-service teachers for technology integration, and how to cultivate
pre-service teachers' computational thinking skills using the robotics and coding
tools available in the Innovation Lab. Besides the research on pre-service teachers'
development, studies concerning maker education have also been developed in the Innovation
Lab. As a hub of Maker Camps and making activities, the Innovation Lab serves as an
ideal place and resource for research opportunities on the topics of maker education.
This lab is equipped with Dell Optiplex 7000's with Intel Core i5-13500 (13th Gen),
Intel UHD Graphics 770, 16GB ram and a 512GB hard drive.
The Universal Design for Learning Lab (UDLab) is an assistive technology model classroom located in room BEB217. The purpose of
the Universal Design for Learning Lab (UDLab) is to assist the university in fulfilling
its commitment to provide equal access to curriculum and instruction for diverse learners
across the preschool-college-career trajectory. The UDLab blends technology with the
philosophies of Universal Design for Learning, which is a scientific-based framework
that guides the development of flexible learning environments that can accommodate
individual learning styles. Universal Design for Learning addresses the "what, "how",
and "why" of learning and facilitates curriculum content to be presented in different
ways. Undergraduate students and faculty in the BCOE also use this lab as a resource
for their research projects on how emerging, innovative, and assistive technologies
help prepare ALL students, particularly English Learners and/or students with disabilities.
This lab is equipped with Dell Optiplex 7060 with 3.4 GHz Intel Core i5-7500 Quad-Core,
8GB of 2400 MHz DDR4 RAM, Integrated Intel HD Graphics 630, 500GB Hard Drive.
