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Classroom of tomorrow: My experiments with technology. A blended learning experience

This year I got to teach in one of the most technologically advanced classroom on campus, called the “Blended Learning Room” and I feel very privileged to be chosen for the job. This high end classroom has three smart boards, two I-pads that work as control central, multiple inbuilt microphones, cameras with 360° lens that shows the entire  classroom  and automatically focuses on students and instructors as they speak  and a recording facility. The room is supported with a robust learning management system and other technologies that work behind the scene, which I am unaware of. To summarize, the room is a masterpiece. If Michelangelo were a technologist, he would call it “David”. Teaching in this room feels like a renaissance in education has begun. To simply put, it is the classroom of tomorrow that I am using to teach today.  I am able to connect and deliver a lecture to 17 campuses simultaneously. Sounds like an epic win for a person like me who loves using ...