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With the integration of video technology, communication, and interactivity, this innovative classroom breaks distance barriers, improves the student-teacher relationship, and promotes immersive learning.
The future is here! Get to know this innovative immersive classroom that allows teaching without spatial limitations through digital technology and provides students enriched and memorable learning experiences. Although the technology supporting this classroom is robust, student access is simple through a web conference connection, where they find a wide range of tools at their disposal.
The Directorate of Educational Innovation designed the Hall Immersive Room at Tecnológico de Monterrey to teach and transmit virtual courses in conjunction with the Educational Spaces department. With the integration of video technology, communication, and interactivity, this resource breaks distance barriers and improves the student-teacher relationship. Also, it promotes verbal and non-verbal participant communication and facilitates the high proximity of the teacher to his or her students in an immersive environment.
Classes begin in the Hall Immersive Room
On May 20, Professor Cintia Smith from the School of Social Sciences and Government at Tec de Monterrey, and Professor Karina Onofre, from Digital Education started classes in the Hall Immersive Room, providing more direct proximity between teacher and students after fourteen months of contingency. The Elite course, “Citizenship and Technology,” had 53 students from eleven Tec de Monterrey campuses. Also, Professor Jorge Cruz from the School of Engineering and Sciences taught the subject “Analysis of the Structure, Properties, and Transformation of Matter” and became one of the first teachers to use the classroom.
Today, 17 teachers have been trained in this technology to teach more than six Digital Education subjects and 11 classes in the EGADE Business School. These types of rooms for virtual courses utilize video wall technology, communication, professional audio and video equipment, and artificial intelligence to generate an immersive environment for teachers and students and promote active learning.
Although the first Immersive Room is located in the CEDES building on the Monterrey Campus, plans are to open similar rooms on more of the Tecnológico de Monterrey campuses.
Translation by Daniel Wetta.
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