We recently announced that we are deploying ThinkHub Connect Active Learning Room Technology in Zachry Engineering Education Complex at Texas A&M University. Currently, ThinkHub Connect is running in a proof of concept room where instructors are training on how best to use the technology as the university prepares for its full rollout next summer. Texas A&M recently announced more about the installation in the news section of their website. Here's what they have to say:
In the summer of 2018, 46 years after the opening of the original Zachry Engineering Building, the new Zachry Engineering Education Complex (ZEEC) will open its doors to offer undergraduate students the most modern learning environment on campus. There will be no lecture halls, but instead active learning studios that foster teamwork and furniture that fully integrates technology. Active learning, also called collaborative learning or problem-solving learning, exists on many campuses, but the ZEEC will be one of the largest active learning spaces in the country with 18, 100-person learning studios and 14, 50-person learning studios....
The college has partnered with T1V and will be using their ThinkHub Connect solution. Using wall-mounted, large-format touch screens, ThinkHub will allow the instructor to operate on an effective work space that is 20 times the size of the actual screen. Content can be created and moved “off screen” to be brought back later in the class as needed. This eliminates the need to constantly erase material to free up space on the live display. The system allows for adding content from multiple sources like laptops, document cameras, web-based video sources and content from the student table displays.
“Our learning studios were designed with an eye not only for current needs, but the needs of the future as more technology becomes Wi-Fi enabled,” said Ed Pierson, director of IT and chief information officer.
“Individuals are now carrying three to four devices per person and people want to stay connected, so the ZEEC is set up to offer enough capacity to ensure that students in class have what they need to take a test or work on a project online and not be pulled off by students sitting in the halls outside the classroom,” Pierson said.
The ThinkHub system will also enable interactive tutoring sessions between remote sites, provide professors with the ability to interactively collaborate with students at other campuses and enable research teams at different locations the convenience of working with their team without having to leave their home office.
Read the full article on the Texas A&M University website.
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