In a day when all students have a computer, we're still providing plenty of labs. Students want them because, "we know the college computers will work when we need to write a paper." It's almost like they treat their PCs like disposable burners or something :-)
Rand Rand P. Hall Director, Network Services askIT! Merrimack College 978-837-3532 [email protected] If I had an hour to save the world, I would spend 59 minutes defining the problem and one minute finding solutions. – Einstein On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 4:56 PM, Eric T. Barnett <[email protected]>wrote: > We have a new Liberal Arts building that is currently in construction. The > floor plans aren't quite nailed down yet but there was something on the > current plans that made me wonder. There's no less than six computer labs > in the building. Seeing that we make all of our Freshmen buy iPads and that > laptops are super cheap nowadays, I was wondering just how useful computer > labs are now/will be in the next two years or so. Getting rid of most or > all of those labs would cut down on costs considerably. I've heard of some > colleges dumping computer labs as they seem to be needed less and less as > users have more and more tech available cheaply. What's your take? > > Regards, > > Eric Barnett > Senior Network Engineer/Wireless Administrator > Information and Technology Services > Arkansas State University > (870) 680-4243 > http://wireless.astate.edu > > > > ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/.
