Blueprint for Interactive Classrooms: Handbook

Classrooms for Distance Teaching and Learning - A Blueprint Published in 1998 Leuven University Press 270 pp / 1250 BEF (30.98 EURO) order the BIC handbook or go to the Handbook excerpts on-line

Interactive Classrooms for Teaching and Learning

Interactive Classrooms for distance teaching and learning allow teachers, students and institutions to be linked together in a powerful network so that information and expertise can be exchanged with ease. Such classrooms make extensive use of information and communications technologies and human resources in the processes of teaching and learning. They allow for interactive use of various media such as TV, radio, cable and satellite and relatively new capabilities such as videoconferencing, the Internet, academic networks and multimedia resources.

Telepresence as a guide to Learning!

Importantly, interactive classrooms also offer 'telepresence' - the feeling of being present in a classroom with a teacher and other students where there is considerable opportunity for human intellectual and social interaction during the teaching and learning process.

A Practical Guide to Building and Using Interactive Classrooms in YOUR institution!

This handbook provides step-by-step guidelines for designing, building and using interactive classrooms - tailored to specific needs - which promote telepresence with audio-visual technologies such as videoconferencing and television as the main means of communication.

Table of Contents: (See also the Handbook excerpts on this site)

1. Introduction

2. Building an Interactive Classroom: The steps

Task 1: Designing the Teaching and Learning Activity

Task 2: Designing the Teaching and Learning Environment

Task 3: Sound: A Key Requirement

Task 4: Choosing and Buying the Technology

Task 5: Furniture and other items

Task 6: Installing the Classroom

3. Testing it Works

4. How to Use the Classrooms:

Guidelines for Teachers

Guidelines for Learners

Guidelines for Tutors and Facilitators

Guidelines for Managers

Guidelines for Production/Technical Staff

Guidelines for Cleaning and Room Maintenance Staff

5. Troubleshooting

6. Case Studies:

University College Dublin, (UCD)

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, (K.U.Leuven)

Université Nancy 2 (UN2)

Politecnico di Milano, (POLIMI)

Helsinki University of Technology (HUT)

Appendices

Glossary of Terms

World TV Standards

References and Further Reading

Websites

Index

Authors:

This handbook is based upon contributions from:

Lisa Kilbride, Anne Phelan (Audio Visual Centre, University College Dublin, Ireland)

Mathy Vanbuel, (LINOV - Audiovisuele Dienst, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium)

Loïc Deconche (Videoscop, Université Nancy 2, France)

Sergio Brofferio, Luca Maderna, (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)

Tuovi Manninen, Tuomo Rintamäki, Ilija-Matias Lazarov (Helsinki University of Technology, Lifelong Learning Institute, Finland)

Editors: Michael Hegarty, Anne Phelan, and Lisa Kilbride, Audio Visual Centre, University College, Dublin

Published by: Leuven University Press

This handbook is the main outcome of a Pan-European project entitled "Blueprint for Interactive Classrooms," supported under the Telematics Applications Programme (Education and Training) of the European Commission (DGXIII) which included partners from Universities in 5 different European countries. This research and development project which extends from 1996 to 1999 has resulted in the building of pilot classrooms in the participating universities and in the gathering of considerable practical expertise which has been included in this handbook.

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