How new college in Swindon, UK, is using Intel-powered e-classroom technology to enhance classes, by Libby Plummer, technology writer for Intel
As expectations in education are changing, new technologies are beginning to transform classrooms for the 21st century. With an increasing amount of class material now online, connected technology is vital for enhancing student success. Whilst the edge-to-cloud e-classroom plays a vital role in supporting the increasing amount of video teaching materials, it also provides an easily accessible central repository for all the class-related content.
For those that grew up in the 1980s and earlier, blackboards and chalk were a standard feature of every classroom, soon replaced by whiteboards and marker pens in the ‘90s and projector-based Interactive Whiteboards (IWBs) in the early 2000s. Interactive Flat Panel Displays or IFPDs have now gradually started to become a standard feature for schools and colleges around the world, already appearing in more than 70 percent of US school classrooms.
