Discovery Learning Initiative/Center

Discovery Learning Center Already Offers Opportunities for Student Learning - Opening Set for Spring 2002, continued

Undergraduates Mark Krewedl and Jeny Gregario record construction progress last fall on the Discovery Learning Center, located north of ITLL on the corner of Colorado Avenue and Regent Drive.

Construction of the Discovery Learning Center, which began in summer 2000, also has provided a laboratory for students in the Construction Engineering and Management Program.

Undergraduate students Mark Krewedl and Jenny Gregario are studying and recording the construction progress with the goal of creating an interactive CD-ROM that can be used by first- and second-year students as a guide to construction materials, tools, and procedures. The project is along the same lines as the recently completed CD on the Integrated Teaching and Learning Laboratory. However, Krewedl plans to take it to the next level by following such things as the handling of construction documents and communication between architects, contractors and others involved in the construction process.

"I've worked construction for three to four years and I know quite a bit about it, but I've never known the management side," he says, adding that he is learning a lot about construction scheduling and how various problems are solved.

Eventually, students hope to make these resources available over the World Wide Web since they have already received requests from other universities to use the new learning tools.

For now, alumni and friends of the college are invited to visit the discovery learning website to see a web cam view of the construction progress.

The facility is expected to open next spring, with formal dedication scheduled for April 26, 2002.

http://discoverylearning.colorado.edu