The Bagwell College of Education offers state-of-the-art facilities designed to foster interdisciplinary collaboration and research. Equipped with cutting-edge laboratory spaces and infrastructure, these facilities enable both faculty and students to engage in innovative research and resource sharing. The college’s labs are thoughtfully organized into three main categories: computer labs, research labs, and innovation labs, each providing specialized environments to support diverse academic and investigative pursuits.
The School of Instructional Technology & Innovation (SITE) Labs -
KH 2101 (Lab 4)with Dell Optiplex 7000's with Intel Core i5-13500 (13th Gen), Intel UHD Graphics
770, 16GB ram and a 512GB hard drive.
BEB 402 (Lab 5)with Dell 7090's - 2.5 GHz 11th Gen Intel Core i7 8-core processor, Integrated Intel UHD Graphics 750, 16GB of RAM, and a 256gb hard drive.
Labs may be reserved once technology classes have been scheduled. The labs are only
available for use by classes that are engaging in the use of technology.
The Interactive Research Methods Lab (IRML) was officially launched in November 2019, and it is located in room BEB 403 of the Bagwell College of Education. The lab offers an innovative space providing students, faculty, staff, and the public with personalized instruction and practical experience in generating exceptional research design. The IRML provides a transdisciplinary intersection that supports and promotes excellence in research learning and practice. Dedicated to advanced, inventive designs of inquiry. IRML's commitment extends to ensure that the vocabulary of the research world does not prohibit advanced research understanding. This, coupled with engaging technologies focused on user experience, creates democratic, open access to the most complex, modern research theories through simplified, targeted design.
The AVATAR Lab is a state-of-the-art laboratory in which students and faculty utilize
mixed-reality technology to interact with avatars of children and adults, simulating
a variety of situations and challenges teachers can encounter. The student avatars
each have their unique personalities, and the scenarios have low, medium and high
settings requiring varying levels of problem-solving. The lab enables education majors
to receive real-time feedback from their peers and instructors as they engage with
the avatars, which can be programmed to be students ranging from second grade to high
school. The student avatars have abilities and personalities such as an advanced student,
an introvert, a rule-follower and the class clown, and will act accordingly, depending
on how the teacher is conducting class. Faculty and undergraduate students in the
BCOE are also using the lab as a research resource.
The Innovation Lab was established in Spring 2018 by the School of Instructional Technology and Innovation with a bold vision to serve as Bagwell's incubator for educational innovation. The Innovation Lab serves KSU faculty, staff, students as well as K-12 students, teachers, leaders, district personnel and other key strategic partners. The lab is helping to create a culture of innovation in the Bagwell College of Education and supports faculty, staff, students, and administrators in developing an innovator’s mindset. The Innovation Lab is also used by faculty and students as a research resource to help with the testing of innovative high-impact pedagogies. For example, faculty teaching undergraduate instructional technology courses have been conducting research in the Lab on how to better prepare pre-service teachers for technology integration, and how to cultivate pre-service teachers' computational thinking skills using the robotics and coding tools available in the Innovation Lab. Besides the research on pre-service teachers' development, studies concerning maker education have also been developed in the Innovation Lab. As a hub of Maker Camps and making activities, the Innovation Lab serves as an ideal place and resource for research opportunities on the topics of maker education. This lab is equipped with Dell Optiplex 7000's with Intel Core i5-13500 (13th Gen), Intel UHD Graphics 770, 16GB ram and a 512GB hard drive.
The Universal Design for Learning Lab (UDLab) is an assistive technology model classroom
located in room BEB217. The purpose of the Universal Design for Learning Lab (UDLab)
is to assist the university in fulfilling its commitment to provide equal access to
curriculum and instruction for diverse learners across the preschool-college-career
trajectory. The UDLab blends technology with the philosophies of Universal Design
for Learning, which is a scientific-based framework that guides the development of
flexible learning environments that can accommodate individual learning styles. Universal
Design for Learning addresses the "what, "how", and "why" of learning and facilitates
curriculum content to be presented in different ways. Undergraduate students and faculty
in the BCOE also use this lab as a resource for their research projects on how emerging,
innovative, and assistive technologies help prepare ALL students, particularly English
Learners and/or students with disabilities. This lab is equipped with Dell Optiplex
7060 with 3.4 GHz Intel Core i5-7500 Quad-Core, 8GB of 2400 MHz DDR4 RAM, Integrated
Intel HD Graphics 630, 500GB Hard Drive.
The Teacher Resource and Activity Corner (TRAC) at KSU, a comprehensive support center
designed to help education students and teachers create engaging and effective classroom
instruction. TRAC features a fully equipped computer lab, an extensive education library
with over 30,000 resources, and a hands-on maker workroom with cutting-edge tools
like 3D printers and digital die-cutting stations.
Open to the KSU community and local educators, TRAC provides access to essential teaching
materials, technology, and expert staff ready to assist with your needs. Visit today
and explore all that TRAC has to offer!
