Welcome to the classroom of the future. This hasn’t happened overnight,
it started with online classes. Pre-recorded lectures that students could
download and listen to at their leisure. Then there are places like Yale where
they offer classes with live video conferencing, but at the Harvard Business
School, they
have introduced HBX Live: a virtual classroom. In studio, the professor
faces a digital screen that has a live feed of students from around the world.
The main perk of the HBX Live is that students from around the world can
tune in to lectures from the comfort of their own homes, but there are many
other interactive features of the Virtual Classroom. The professor is able to
hold an online poll, and with a touch of a button get back live results from
the students. Students can ask questions live and participate in classroom
debates.
Learning experiences will be widely enhanced. U of C’s Virtual Reality
teaching will allow students access to “real world” experience from the safety
of their own classrooms. Harvard’s HBX Live will allow students from around the
world to participate in lectures. This new virtual classroom technology will
allow students from around the world to access high quality education at world
class institutions. And this is only the starting point, as virtual
reality technology evolves and innovates, the possibilities are virtually endless
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