Friday, April 20, 2012

The Rise of Smart Classrooms

The presence of smart classrooms are quickly rising on university campuses all over the world. What are smart classrooms? According to Northwestern University Information Technology, smart classrooms are technology enhanced classrooms that foster opportunities for teaching and learning by integrating learning technology, such as computers, specialized software, audience response technology, networking, and audio/visual capabilities. They mostly contain projectors, projections screens, document cameras, dual-OS computers, DVDs, sound systems and other interactive electronics. They are being used to help the learning process at many universitites. Check out the smart classrooms web page at two universities below:

http://www.it.northwestern.edu/education/classrooms/index.html
http://www.unco.edu/it/smartclassrooms/smartclassrooms.html

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