Design of a Smart Classroom with Audio Visual (AV) Infrastructure for academic institutions to Enable Collaborative Learning

Abstract

Smart classrooms are basically the rooms wherein students come together in a shared space to construct, manipulate, and negotiate meaning around a canvas. This enables collaborative learning in the most effective manner. The environments become immersive learning happens on walls, desks, tables, and in conversations. The interactive surfaces become shared perceptual spaces where students discuss meaning and clarity and come to a collective understanding. When there is an environment with touch screens dedicated to creating opportunities for shared perceptual meaning, the students could dig down and construct knowledge in a deeper way. If you want students exchanging, collaborating, and talking synchronously in class then shared public spaces should be the primary focus of work. There are many techniques and options for setting up a smart classroom. Depending on the requirement and fund availability, the features and technology can be chosen. The requirements in a school would be less in terms of cost and technology as the school student would not be much well versed with the technological platforms. In this paper we have discussed about a smart class room that could provide an automated interactive learning environment for a modernized classroom of a school.