SCAL@R and Flexible Classrooms
Student-Centered Active Learning at Rice (or "SCAL@R") is a flexible teaching and learning method employed in some Rice classes. In a SCAL@R class, classroom time features students in small discussion groups instead of the traditional seating in a large lecture hall. SCAL@R is a means of making a large survey course feel more like a seminar, with the aim of improving student interest and retention of material.
Additional information about SCAL@R can be viewed at http://news.rice.edu/2012/10/05/scalr-shakes-up-traditional-classroom-instruction-at-rice/.
A flexible, alternative furniture layout is necessary for a successful SCAL@R class, in order to place students in small groups for active discussions. To that end, Rice has modified several rooms for their use as flexible classrooms:
- Anderson Biology Lab 130 (52 seats)
- Brockman 101 (150 seats)
- Duncan College 113 (99 seats)
- Gibbs Rec Center 160A (30 seats)
- Gibbs Rec Center 220 (26 seats)
- Herman Brown B21 (24 seats)
- Kraft 102 (15 seats)
- Kraft 120 (17 seats)
- Kraft 105 (34 seats)
- Lovett College Commons (184 seats)
- Moody Center 103 (18 seats)
- Moody Center 210 (20 seats)
- Moody Center 237 (24 seats)
- Maxfield 252 (48 seats)
- O'Connor 130 (108 seats)
- O'Connor 132 (108 seats)
- Provisional Campus Facility 4 (90 seats)
- Rayzor 227 (12 seats)
- Rayzor 113 (36 seats)
- Rayzor 119 (66 seats)
- Rayzor 123 (36 seats)
- Rayzor 204 (20 seats)
- Rayzor 205 (20 seats)
- Rayzor 304 (20 seats)
- Rayzor 305 (20 seats)
- Sewall 133 (24 seats)
- Sewall 101 (36 seats)
- Wiess College 146 (36 seats)