The demands of today's instructional environment require powerful tools to actively engage the audience. Technology has influenced the learning styles of today's generation of students, and has increased the potential for making the classroom experience more productive than ever. Advances in technology provide instructors with a variety of tools, enabling them to impact students in ways never before possible. The ideal deployment of this technology provides an easy to use system that allows faculty to focus on instruction, rather than a distracting series of equipment control functions.
The Technology Enhanced Classroom (TEC) initiative at Case Western Reserve University is more than simply installing audio-visual equipment into the classroom. It is part of Information Technology Service's Strategic Framework, in which instructors, as well as students, are given access to information resources that are available beyond the four walls of the traditional classroom.
Designing facilities which can meet the needs of today while remaining flexible enough to accommodate future technological innovations requires careful planning and organization.
Goal of the TEC Initiative:
The goal of the Technology Enhanced Classroom Initiative is to equip the university's classrooms and lecture halls with a baseline of multimedia technology, thereby enabling the use of state-of-the-art tools to enhance classroom-based learning.
Scope of the TEC Initiative:
The scope of the Technology Enhanced Classroom Initiative includes a five-year plan to equip the classrooms that are currently under the scheduling control of the university registrar.
