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Making Campus Spaces into Next-Gen Learning Zones with Ease
Colleges and universities are serving generations of students who have never lived a day without powerful technologies like smartphones, video chatting, and search engines. As sophisticated consumers of engaging digital content and collaboration, these students expect technology to show up in both their entertainment and their education.
Higher ed institutions can and should reach students in all the ways they would like to show up to class, whether that’s online, in-person or both. To enhance the flexibility of interactions and experiences across their entire institution, IT and technology leaders will need solutions that add lots of value without adding to faculty workload.
Here are key insights to guide the digital transformation higher ed is making to prepare for the future.
Understanding student expectations
Already, 49% of higher ed students prefer hybrid learning, and 29% say they prefer learning mostly or completely online. In response, 70% of colleges have now adopted some form of online learning, and the quality of the student learning experience must be considered. Today’s students expect flexibility, polished and engaging content, and smooth transitions between physical and digital learning spaces. Expanding new AV capabilities to rooms across campus, from lecture halls to libraries, can meet these evolving demands.
Keep tech and faculty in sync
The effort IT teams make to transform campus facilities will have the best return when technology is easy to use by faculty. Over time, professors are becoming increasingly comfortable with sophisticated use of tech in courses. Institutions now have a chance to capitalize on and expand this mindset shift. User-friendly solutions like the Logitech Scribe Whiteboard Camera, lets every professor broadcast striking visual content to in-person and remote students with minimal effort. With an AI-powered transparency effect, the camera gives remote students crystal-clear whiteboard views at the touch of a button, even while someone is writing on the board. The custom lens can even capture sticky notes.
Make every space a studio
As part of digital transformation, the college or university of the future thinks of its rooms and facilities as content creation studios — places where polished content can be effortlessly combined with traditional academic content for greater engagement and relevance.
To reach this goal, institutions can implement tech solutions that enhance different learning spaces to enable modalities like hyflex or hybrid learning. From an office desk to a lecture hall that seats hundreds, everywhere on campus can become a hub of creation for flexible, seamless learning.
Personal workspaces
With the right solutions, an instructor can create and share lecture material from their individual space, offering students unique perspectives to learn from and engage with.
The Logitech Mevo Start wireless HD live streaming camera helps faculty seamlessly stream stunning video directly to sharing platforms like YouTube from anywhere on campus. This means they can create course content in advance of a lecture to share with remote and in-person students. It’s also easy to use with wireless controls and features like Auto-Director that make positioning the camera a breeze.
The Logitech Reach Adjustable Content Camera offers crystal-clear close-ups of non-digital content, moving in every direction to capture all vantage points. One-hand flexibility keeps faculty in the flow while they’re teaching, and it adjusts to smaller spaces with a compact, stowed mode. Like all Logitech solutions, Logitech Reach is designed to be plug-and-play, integrating seamlessly with most computers and streaming platforms like Zoom and Teams.
Small group learning spaces
Hybrid or hyflex learning in smaller spaces requires tech that can provide a clear and natural experience for both in-person and remote students.
The Logitech Rally Bar Mini Video Conferencing System achieves this with outstanding optics and AI-driven audio enhancement. As a CollabOS device, it can be configured in multiple ways with different modes depending on the classroom needs — as a meeting room appliance, in USB mode connected to a PC, or connected via a laptop. In appliance mode, for example, the Camera Zone feature allows for defining a specific area for the camera to actively detect and frame meeting participants, eliminating distractions from individuals outside of the space.
The Logitech Sight Tabletop Video Conferencing System is another solution to bring all students together for seamless collaboration. With seven omni-directional microphones and three ways to install — table, grommet and tabletop — it gives remote participants a front-row seat to the action. It also integrates effortlessly with leading platforms such as Zoom and Teams.
To make using AV solutions even easier to use, the Logitech Tap IP Meeting Room Touch Controller makes joining video meetings simple. This sleek solution starts video meetings with a single touch, integrates with calendars, and enables quick content sharing. Its multiple mounting options fit a variety of learning spaces, and its elegant cabling and clean installation can reduce IT workload.
Classroom learning spaces
No matter how students are attending a course, there are multiple ways for higher ed institutions to enable dynamic lectures and exercises in larger rooms such as classrooms and medium-sized lecture halls.
To ensure every student is seen and heard in vivid, lifelike detail even in larger rooms, the Logitech Rally Bar Video Conferencing System offers multiple views and sound options with RightSight and RightSound 2. RightSight, an AI-powered camera behavior and image processing feature, enables group view, speaker view, and grid view to ensure a speaker is always in frame. In addition, RightSound 2 activates AI noise and echo suppression with voice equalization for audio clarity. Institutions can manage their Rally Bar from a single and secure cloud-based platform, and it’s easy for IT staff to set up and integrate with meeting controllers such as Logitech Tap IP.
Learning for the long term
Higher ed learning must become more flexible, collaborative, and seamless to put the next generation of higher ed, and the students it serves, in a position to succeed. Logitech solutions are built with colleges and universities in mind to help them meet students' expectations and preferences, support IT teams, and maintain their authority into the digital future.
To learn more about Logitech's suite of education solutions, go to www.logitech.com/education.
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