Malcolm Brown is Director of Academic
Computing at Dartmouth College. In this
role, he furnishes computing support for
teaching and learning, research, classroom
technology, and media production.
One of his areas of particular interest is
learning spaces. At Dartmouth, he
chairs the campus-wide Classroom
Subcommittee. He was a guest for a CREN
Tech Talk on smart classrooms (11/15/01),
and has participated in a recent PKAL
workshop on learning space design.
Together with Joan Lippincott, he has
co-authored an article with Joan
Lippincott on learning spaces that
appeared in the Educause Quarterly (Volume
26, Number 1). Over the past year he
has been on the planning committee for
four focus sessions for the Educause
Learning Inititiative (ELI), including the
series on learning spaces. He has
presented Educause conference on the
learning spaces theme. He is also a user
of teaching and learning spaces, as this
term he is teaching a course on Nietzsche
and antisemitism. Malcolm hold a pair of
BA degrees from UC Santa Cruz, studied in
Freiburg, Germany, on a pair of Fulbright
scholarships, and has a PhD in German
Studies from Stanford University. He is a
member of the Frye Institute class of
2002.