Classroom of the Future

Vision  The Classroom of the Future will be heavily technology enabled.  We are already seeing a great deal of technology migrate into the classroom.  Typical classrooms contain computer kiosks, projectors, audio-visual equipment, VCRs and DVD video players, graphics tablets and ELMO projectors as well as other emerging technologies.  

Currently the electronic classroom is a moving target.  Not only is the equipment itself changing constantly, but the necessary training, authoring materials, media and the like are always chasing the technology.  What is the ultimate classroom of the future?  How close are we to it?  What enabling technologies would be required to make it happen?  These are some of the important questions that have to be answered before the future finally arrives, obsolete as always, on the scene.

The PDA (Personal Digital Assistant) may be a tool to activate and ensure mobility for example.  Envisioning the Classroom of the Future is the central them of this Focus Project.

Objectives  Among the objectives for the Classroom of the Future is a technology enabled classroom that is extremely easy to use.  It should allow the instructor the fullest use of the technology without being obtrusive or difficult to use in any way.  The instructor should be able to move around the classroom, interact with the technology and with students in a fluid and simple manner that the technology facilitates.  The technology should allow the teacher to record what is going on for reuse.  The technology should be in the background, enabling and empowering, but not interfering.

An example is shown here.  Another example here  or here here or here here again here

Technology Enhanced Learning Environments: here