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Welcome to the eClassroom
support site, a partnership between the College of Natural and Agricultural
Sciences and Computing and Communications.
The eClassroom@UCR, a collaboration between the , the Department of Statistics, and
is now being used for undergraduate Statistics lab sections. The eClassroom
was developed to provide an interactive, participative learning environment
for classes utilizing computer-aided instruction, especially undergraduate Statistics.
Using videoconferencing equipment and IP-based computer lab management software,
the eClassroom incorporates two multimedia labs into a single virtual classroom.
In the CNAS Statistics building, two multimedia computing facilities (rooms
2680 and 2686) were interactively connected with videoconferencing equipment,
a document camera, a 60" projection screen, NetOp School classroom control
software, and a Windows NT server addressing 42 Pentium-class personal computers
(including an instructor control station).
The eClassroom was created to meet the following goals:
- A virtual classroom large enough to make a meaningful
reduction in the number of undergraduate statistics sections.
- Faculty control and management over each student's work
from a central location.
- Faculty able to highlight work from a particular student
or group of students, thus engaging the class in a "participative"
learning environment.
- Faculty able to introduce multimedia material (from a
VCR, laptop, document camera, etc.) to offer students a richer, more stimulating
classroom experience.
- An infrastructure that would allow the facility to "grow";
specifically, by linking classrooms across campus via UCR's high speed network
and technology already in place.
The eClassroom came on-line in the Fall 2000 academic quarter
and has been used successfully by a number of faculty teaching various courses
in Statistics. The combination of classroom management technology, multimedia
functionality and interior design have provided a rich and robust learning environment.
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