Opinion AVer PTZ camera SoundBar


Kramer VIA Campus2


Twin 65” ViewSonic IFPDs


Slot In OPS PC


Dalen height adjustable stand Podium with


Twin 24” ViewSonic displays AVer Visualiser


Cloud-based dashboard for data analysis


SensingFeeling Student Engagement / social distancing


Kramer Control & Management


The Visual Learning Lab [VLL] is an on-campus hybrid teaching space for any mix of physically present and remote-based students to learn together.


ed to create the Visual Learning Lab. What is the Visual Learning Lab? The Visual Learning Lab [VLL] is an on-campus hybrid teaching space for any mix of physically present and re- mote-based students to learn together. Many of us believe that the majority of learning spaces moving forwards will be designed as so-called HyFlex rooms to provide such flexibility. In our VLL, two adjacent ViewSonic touch screens act as one super wide display. A Kram- er VIA collaboration platform provides connectivity to and from all students and whatever device they have, and incorporating an AVer PTZ Camera and A3 visualiser, remote students can see everything just as well as those sat in the room. With a Windows 10 system at its heart, Teams, Zoom and other emer- gency UC solutions are transformed when their remote participants are displayed across the super wide View- Sonic screen. The faces are no lon- ger thumbnails, body language can be read, engagement recognised.


instant, the two screens become one giant whiteboard, providing a mean-


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ingful writing canvas for STEM and other subjects that can be digitally captured, shared, re-used, etc. But now, because this is not a be- spoke system, we have the opportunity to develop pedagogical practices with additional software and hardware solu- tions. Perhaps some software more focused as a remote classroom tool? Or maybe another era that has been talked about as ‘the next thing’ will shortly come of age? AI, in the form of video observation, has the potential to revolutionise individual learning path- ways. As a force for good, could ma- chine learning measure engagement, understanding, and wellbeing through a mixture of anonymous and identified interventions? First VLL


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Our very first VLL is being installed at the City of Glasgow College in ear- ly March. The college is not so much getting a valuable resource, but also becoming a highly valued partner in the development of hybrid learning with a new array of tools. Most im- portantly, they have the support of a small group of technology manufactur-


ers committed to working together and with the sector, in order to develop the best solutions and not just their own version of it. We purposely wanted this development to be positioned as a laboratory that can research and evolve excellence in student learning.


Maybe not every-


thing will work on campus quite as we imagined, and we encourage other ex- perts to explore where their technolo- gies might fit and add value to student learning.


There is no doubt that the


capture and broadcast of learning and teaching will increase, as will the use of automated computer vision that can monitor student attendance and their behaviours in more depth.


Developments, such as the Visual Learning Lab, in partnership with the sector for the sector, have a real poten- tial to be a force for good, and a sub- stantial benefit to students on and off the campus as online learning comes of age.


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