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title: Teaching Center Seeks “A” in Innovation
date: 2014-06-10T03:00:00-04:00
author: University of Maryland
canonical_url: "https://terp.umd.edu/teaching-center-seeks-a-in-innovation"
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# Teaching Center Seeks “A” in Innovation

*June 10, 2014*


*St John building*

**Construction will** begin in June on the Edward St. John Learning and Teaching Center, designed to be a national model of collaborative learning. Its 13 classrooms, along with other small-group spaces, will feature technology including video projection and capture for Web streaming, distance learning and audiovisual recording. In the ultra-modern lecture halls, wheeled chairs will allow students to seamlessly work together, while moving lecterns will allow faculty to teach from multiple locations.

The 186,415-square-foot building will also include nine labs in a new chemistry wing. Named for the Baltimore developer, philanthropist and 1961 alumnus who donated $10 million to the project, the center will be centrally located on McKeldin Mall with a face on Campus Drive. When it opens in 2017, it will also house the [Academy for Innovation and Entrepreneurship](http://www.innovation.umd.edu/) and the Teaching & Learning Transformation Center.


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*Click on the images below to see more artist’s renderings of the new center:*






**Issue:** [Spring 2014](https://terp.umd.edu/editions/spring-2014)


**Types:** [Campus Life](https://terp.umd.edu/category/campus-life)