Case Study
UW-Madison School of Nursing
MADISON, WI Total Transition University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Nursing eliminates lecture halls Technology is transforming higher education, but perhaps nowhere is that change more evident or exciting than at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Nursing. Over the last five years, a team headed by Dean Katharyn A. May has been working to set up “a quick and massive transition” to active learning methods for all of the School of Nursing classroom instruction. It’s a promise they made good on last August with the opening of Signe Skott Cooper Hall, the School’s new home. “It’s wonderful and a little bit scary,” says Jerzy "George" Jura, Director of Academic Technology. “We don’t really have traditional lecture halls anymore. Every classroom designed for more than