Advanced technologies are causing a remarkable transformation in learning environments. Technology-enhanced classrooms, or “smart classrooms,” and wireless access points create new opportunities in teaching and learning by integrating networking, computers and audio visual technologies.

These 21st century learning environments foster a new paradigm of intellectual teamwork and interaction through activities that integrate instructor demonstration, peer learning, group meeting, instructor consultation and project presentation and critique. They are not only a physical meeting place for classroom sessions, but also a gateway providing technological access to information resources not located on campus.

Faculty and students value these technology-enhanced rooms because they aid the learning process. For instance, faculty can use a notebook computer with a wireless connection to the internet, visible to the entire class via a ceiling-mounted projector and screen, to graphically demonstrate concepts or physical systems that would otherwise be too large, small, complicated or dangerous to display “live” in front of students. Your endowment gift will not only continually improve the living and working environment for faculty and students, but you will also contribute to ongoing revolutions in knowledge.

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