Technology Enhanced Classrooms
TECHNOLOGY SUPPORT | COMPLETED INITIATIVE

Academic Technologies, in collaboration with faculty focus groups, completed the new design of the Classroom of the Future in the spring of 2016. During the summer semester of 2016, a pilot of the first prototype was launched in UGLC 340. During fall of 2016, the Department of Telecommunications Infrastructure deployed the new design in the following classrooms: Liberal Arts 303, Liberal Arts 308, Geology 123, Education 312, Education 405, Business 329, Classroom Building 205, and Campbell 234. One of the high impact components of the new design is the projector selection. It is an efficient and reliable projector which does not require a lamp and needs no maintenance. Projector failure is the component with the highest impact in lost classroom instruction time. With limited funding available and a large number of classrooms (250+), our next goal is to replace all projectors within the next five years to minimize or eliminate the loss of instruction time.