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Noguera, Magdy; Budden, Michael Craig; Silva, Alberto – American Journal of Business Education, 2011
This paper reports the results of a survey conducted to assess students' usage and perceptions of a finance lab. Finance labs differ from simple computer labs as they typically contain data boards, streaming market quotes, terminals and software that allow for real-time financial analyses. Despite the fact that such labs represent significant and…
Descriptors: Financial Services, Use Studies, Computer Uses in Education, Educational Environment
Young, Jeffrey R. – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2008
North Carolina State University may never build another computer lab. Instead the university has installed racks of equipment in windowless rooms where students and professors never go. This article describes a project called the Virtual Computing Lab. Users enter it remotely from their own computers in dormitory rooms or libraries. They get all…
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Computers, Educational Technology, Computer Centers
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van den Blink, Clare – EDUCAUSE Quarterly, 2009
How can an IT department transform traditional computer labs given the resource limits of a university setting? Before engaging a redesign team, conduct some groundwork and initial research to help guide design and resource decisions. When the author and her colleagues considered modifying the lab spaces at Cornell, they initially engaged in…
Descriptors: Focus Groups, Computer Uses in Education, Colleges, Computer Centers
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Spennemann, Dirk H. R.; Atkinson, John; Cornforth, David – Behaviour & Information Technology, 2007
Student computer laboratories are provided by most teaching institutions around the world; however, what is the most effective layout for such facilities? The log-in data files from computer laboratories at a regional university in Australia were analysed to determine whether there was a pattern in student seating. In particular, it was…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Centers, Educational Facilities Design
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McFadden, Anna C. – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 1999
Studied use of the Internet by college students by determining sites selected on 6 of 70 computers in a college computer laboratory. The overwhelming use of the Internet in this open lab conformed to university acceptable-use policy, with almost no use of the computers to contact pornographic sites. (SLD)
Descriptors: College Students, Computer Centers, Computer Uses in Education, Higher Education
Arnzen, Michael A. – Internet World, 1995
Presents guidelines for college students on using the Internet. Highlights include registering early, learning about Campus Wide Information System, finding an ideal time to use the computer lab and experimenting on the equipment, finding local USENET groups, reading the local mailing lists, researching professors' backgrounds, e-mailing…
Descriptors: College Students, Computer Centers, Computer Networks, Computer Uses in Education
Lang, Kathy J.; Bielejeski, Ruth – 1998
The College of Saint Benedict and Saint John's University (Minnesota), two coordinate, liberal arts colleges, have implemented a cost-effective student information technology (IT) support system. Project IMPACT (Implementing Academic Technology), a 5-year, $10 million plan to upgrade the technology for student and faculty use, was implemented in…
Descriptors: College Students, Computer Centers, Computer Networks, Computer Uses in Education