Makerspaces

The article tells the story behind the evolution of the Shapiro Library Innovation Laboratory and Makerspace at Southern New Hampshire University (SNHU). Factors to the purchase of a three-dimensional (3D) printer and development of a makerspace are discussed. It highlights how the printer supported curriculum and helped students exposed students to innovative technologies and science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education, and the policy and procedures for the makerspace

Educational makerspaces (EM) and maker education (ME) have the potential to revolutionize the way we approach teaching and learning. The maker movement in education is built upon the foundation of constructionism, which is the pMlosophy of hands-on learning through building things.

A great educational makerspace motivates more questions than answers because asking
the right questions leads to deeper understanding. Such lessons are not learned in a vacuum, and when independent exploration is the goal, the design of the space and the
choice of the tools are mission critical.

Owning the learning experience opens unexplored horizons to students because independent
thinkers have the uncanny ability to strike out into uncharted territory. Educational makerspaces are the ideal environment to foster such independent exploration, but the
map for creating engaging educational makerspaces remains relatively sparse.

Dale Dougherty introduces us to technologies that hobby inventors use—such as the Arduino and 3-D printers.

In this program, Hazel Henderson and Los Angeles-based asset manager Gregory Wendt, principal of Stakeholder Capital, talk about the importance of new ways of managing assets based on wider analyses beyond the failed economic and financial models which crashed in 2008.

Published on May 27, 2014
Have you ever wanted to make something from scratch? Emerging from the Maker movement, which focuses on giving people the tools to create, Steven Lucero explains how we can use the same flexible and creative model to make substantial academic gains.

Make (or MAKE) is an American bimonthly magazine published by Maker Media which focuses on do it yourself (DIY) and/or DIWO (Do It With Others) projects involving computers, electronics, robotics, metalworking, woodworking and other disciplines.