Not all the content that needs to be generated in meeting rooms is digital - and a lot of important content is created dynamically as the outcome of interactions in the form of in-meeting notes and scribbles. But sharing this "written content" is not always convenient in most modern meeting rooms, which is a design…
Creating collaborative spaces for different grade levels is important, and schools are beginning to design classrooms that will accommodate a wide variety of learning activities lectures, cooperative learning, group activities, learning by teaching or presentations or lectures by students, multimedia technology in classroom, etc.
Since learning is reliant on the social, emotional, and physiological development of…
In internal team discussions at Actis, we often marvel at how we feel 2015 represents the cusp of a massive transformation of how business is conducted. While the primary driver of this change is the real-time global business environment, this is closely followed by the fact that many collaboration-assisting technologies are now either achieving maturity,…
The term collaboration is almost always subconsciously associated with businesses, but its truly a universal tool that the mobile internet has enabled at almost every level and in almost every sphere of our lives. We collaborate as individuals in innumerable ways and then look for opportunities to apply this our work — making things happen…
Distance learning rooms represent a unique kind of challenge compared to more conventional video conferencing rooms, partly because of the size of the rooms involved and partly because of the nature of interactions in a learning environment. Getting the design right in these environments is the key to natural interactions that allow faculty to utilize…
The AVNetwork has a vision for the future of technology-enabled learning spaces, and they've described it in some detail here. Read the complete article to see if you can get some useful ideas to give your classroom design and integration project a jump start.
A few insightful extracts from the article...
"Ideally, the collaborative classroom…
Classrooms are evolving to meet the changing expectations of students and allow the use of new kinds of multimedia and interactive content that teachers are using to transform the learning experience. The new generation of classrooms is interactive – and needs to be designed to allow for a very smooth transition to interactivity, as and…
Recording and distributing classroom content (including LIVE streaming) is increasingly popular for both the education and corporate training applications. The potential of some of these features is already being realised by several leading learning institutions in India — including IIT, IIM and Lintas.
While we've talked about products that help implement this in your VC-enabled spaces…
As organisations get larger (and more distributed) it becomes virtually impossible to ensure the presence of all key members in different types of important group interactions.
But a new set of videoconferencing and recording technologies make it possible for members to participate in these events from remote locations or by viewing them a later point of…