A short presentation for the flexibilisation of lecture rooms in order to address both large student cohorts and many small classes.

1. Next Generation Classroom
Flexibility of Current Lecture Rooms
Piet van der Zanden
IT Advisor for ICT in Education
a.h.w.vanderzanden@tudelft.nl.
March 25, 2010
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- Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management – Education & Technology
- Shared Service Centre ICT – Systems for Research & Education

2. Higher Education is ‘Under Pressure’
Higher Education is operating in a competitive market:
•Efficiency as a consequence of decreasing subsidies
•Massification since 1960s due to growing student numbers
•Mobility due to Lissabon Agreement
•Heterogeneity due to massification and mobility
•Personalisation due to Bachelor (major & minor) and Master tracks
How to deal with pressures considering lecture rooms?
ICT in education must not only focus at subject matter, pedagogies, tools
but at lecture rooms and scheduling as well (real estate & facility mgt.)
Next Generation Classroom is a plea to the management of:
•Real Estate and Facility Management
•Education and Student Affairs
•Shared Service Centre - ICT
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3. Good Old Lecture Room and Educational Practice
Lecture room: flat room or amphitheater
Practice: frontal instruction, direct communication
ICT tools: beamer, interactivity board, VLE, overhead projector
Scheduling: maximum seats, location, technology
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4. Splitting the Lecture Room for more Spaces
Clear
vs
Opaque
Back-projection means no
shadow due to video stream
Activity 01:
How many lecture rooms allow splitting? How many m2 of priva-lite glass?
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5. Sound Support for Split-up Lecture Rooms
02: Redundant UTP cabling for acoustic wiring (coverage, quality, costs)?
03: Which PA system (headset, ceiling microphones, wall speakers)?
04: How is the questioner’s mike selected and activated?
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6. Video Conference for Split-up Lecture Rooms
05: Which HD cameras and video equipment (coverage, quality, costs)?
06: Which LCD displays (size, quality, number)?
07: How is camera/person selected and activated (zoom, pan, tilt)?
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7. Lecture Rooms in Grid to Augment Audience
Touch screen shows planned lecture rooms.
Lecturer (de)selects rooms on interactive floor plan and activates
video and audio streams.
Lecturer may override default values from classroom planners.
Intelligent lectern shows presentation in mini format.
Questioners’ pictures are shown in order.
When selected a videoconference channel is set up.
08: Design and develop applications for showing planned lecture rooms on
touch screen, selection by lecturer, activation of video and audio streams.
09: Design and develop console for virtual queuing of questioners.
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8. Occupation, Utilisation, Presence
Occupation = which lecture rooms are in use?
Utilisation = how many seats of total capacity?
Touch buttons
on campus card
Logging presence in lecture room for interaction
Logging pedestrian traffic on campus
10: Which RFID chip on campus card? Which detection gate?
11: Design and develop presence application (check exams, visitors).
12: Design and develop occupation and utilisation logger.
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9. Efficiency in Amphi-Theater with FlexStool
Lecture room concept endures centuries already
Educational practices
with group work
demands seating that
facilitates interaction and
collaborative work.
Graduation project: Student Industrial Design designs and builds prototype
of so-called FlexStool. Delivery expected in June 2010. Subsequently
multiple rooms for try-out in cooperation with company.
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