College campuses have long been defined by lecture halls — aisles of crowded auditorium seating facing a sole professor behind a lectern. While this model has endured for decades, it has limitations in engaging students and lacks means for broader content distribution.
Modern learning studios provide a highly flexible alternative. Like a traditional classroom upgraded for the digital age, learning studios enable educators to teach enrolled students as well as broadcast lessons to much larger remote audiences.
Built for multi-directional communication, learning studios foster collaborative student participation. Movable furnishings allow quick group reconfigurations to suit different teaching approaches. Integrated cameras, microphones, and projection technology capture the instructor’s lesson from multiple angles for an immersive remote viewing experience.
Students in the studio actively engage via digital whiteboarding, shared cloud documents, and multimedia content creation. Whether working through problems, analyzing texts, reviewing footage, or building 3D models, in-person learners are part of the action. All of this activity can be supported via ThinkHub Education technology — featuring a massive digital Canvas accessible from the Room or from an app on student or instructor laptops.
For remote participants, video segments provide greater context and visualization. The instructor can use ThinkHub to switch between feeds from overhead document cameras, mobile boards, guest interviews, and field site footage. This amplified multimedia perspective boosts content retention and recall. At the end of a class session, all of the content is accessible via the ThinkHub Canvas — which can be opened / edited / saved at any time.
Learning studios enable students and teachers to move fluidly between individual, small group, and large group interactions. The space adapts on the fly to shifting lesson dynamics and active learning techniques. Neither fully classroom nor studio, the environment offers the best of both.
Purpose-built for connecting beyond the physical walls, learning studios are ideal for emerging teaching methods. Flipping traditional models, instructors can assign homework then use studio time for Q&A, discussions, and live group projects. The studio also facilitates collaborative projects across hybrid teams — who can leverage ThinkHub to interact and share content and ideas with one another.
As higher education evolves, and the technology stack to support it, the possibilities of the learning studio model are just starting to be realized.
Check out how one of our standout customers, UC Riverside — is powering their learning studio with ThinkHub technology. See the case study here:
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ThinkHub Education Use Case: Remote Learning Studios