CCRI Awarded $300K Grant to Fund Interactive Learning Center
Friday, December 30, 2016
The Community College of Rhode Island (CCRI) received a $300,000 grant from the Champlin Foundations as part of an $893,000 project to build an interactive learning center for health sciences students at the college’s Flanagan Campus in Lincoln.
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The grant will fund three classrooms with screens, projectors, 70-inch monitors, podiums and equipment, video conferencing gear and audio systems, including a system for hearing impaired students .
GET THE LATEST BREAKING NEWS HERE -- SIGN UP FOR GOLOCAL FREE DAILY EBLAST“Technology helps students practice decision-making safely, giving them real experience in what health care providers do every day: make decisions in a rapid period of time with expert knowledge and efficiency. We emphasize quality care, safe decision-making and good patient outcomes, and we will use this technology to support our students’ learning of those components,” said Dr. Rosemary Costigan, interim vice president for Academic Affairs.
The new technology will support the introduction of concept based curriculum in theory courses.
New podium systems will include camera technology for demonstrations of hands on activities. Cisco videoconferencing equipment will allow collaboration with faculty in the Simulation Lab or with a presenter, doctor or instructor anywhere in the world.
“Technology like this that allows us to simulate and interact in real time improves health care. Students can fine-tune their skills so they are really ready to enter into practice when they graduate,” said Costigan.
The college will contribute the remaining $593,000 to the project for new seating, electrical work, staging, carpet, a nonslip epoxy floor, painting, ADA access, and architectural and design work.
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