About The Tuttleman Learning Center

• Building Highlights
• What's Inside, Floor by Floor
• The Tuttleman Family, Temple Benefactors
• Tuttleman FAQs (Frequently Asked Questions)
• Technology Classroom Information

From its soaring atrium to its high-tech classrooms, the Tuttleman Learning Center offers Temple University students an exciting place to learn, research, and relax.

Building Highlights
The building includes more than 30 state-of-the-art multimedia classrooms, including lecture halls, computer teaching labs, and general-use classrooms. For research and academic support, the Learning Center offers 100 workstations on the first floor, along with library services, the University Writing Center, and the offices of Temple’s Honors Program and International Programs. For relaxation, Tuttleman offers a café with bistro fare, student lounges with atrium window views, and an outdoor courtyard.

The four-story building is located at 13^th Street and Montgomery Avenue, across the street from the Student Activity Center (SAC), and behind Paley Library.

Additional resources in Tuttleman include a faculty Instructional Support Center, a Media Distribution and Instructional Support Depot, the Fox School of Business and Management Honors Laptop Program, a Music Room for the Esther Boyer College of Music, and other facilities.

The Learning Center will include an expansion of Paley Library. The building is connected to Paley via a walkway, and will offer numerous library services including the main Paley circulation desk as well as the reserve desk, interlibrary loan office, and distribution area for the PC Loaner laptop program. The library expansion within Tuttleman will include a 100-seat reading area as well as the 100-workstation Scholars Information Center.

What's Inside, Floor by Floor
From bottom to top, visitors to the Tuttleman Learning Center will find the following highlights:

• The lower level will house six classroom computer labs (two Macintosh labs and four Windows-based labs), two classrooms, the "Fresh Bytes" café with bistro fare (toss-to-order salads and specialty sandwiches), cafe seating and a vending alcove, a Instructional Support Center faculty lab, and an Instructional Support Equipment Depot.

• The first floor of Tuttleman has three lecture halls, a music classroom, library resources, and the Scholars Information Center.

• The second floor is home to the University'’s Writing Center, Honors Program, and International Programs Office. It also contains a laptop learning room (home of the Fox School of Business and Management Honors Laptop Program, a technology demo room, and a student lounge area.

• The third floor features seven classrooms (four of which are subdividable) and a student lounge area.

• The fourth floor has eight classrooms (five of which are subdividable), and two student lounge areas.

All classrooms will feature varying levels of "Smart Classroom" technology. Lecture halls and high-end classrooms include permanently-installed smart podiums equipped with desktop computers and flat screen monitors, document cameras, VCRs, CD player, a touch screen remotes to control room darkening and all other media devices, and patch panels for external devices. Touch-screen panels control room audio systems, ceiling-mounted video/data projectors, slide projectors, remotely controlled projection screens.

All classrooms have network connections for accessing the Internet and Temple resources. On-site media support personnel will assist with room set up in classrooms and computer labs.

More Information

• Tuttleman FAQs (Frequently Asked Questions)
• Technology Classroom Information

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