Goals

Project Goals

• Here is a detailed document describing our project goals.

• Empower professors by providing software tools for use with electronic chalkboards.
• Allow professors to fully use our software tools with minimal effort and minimal change to their current routine.

Student Goals

• Empower students by providing software tools for use both during classes and during study. Although not required, we assume each student has a computer in the classroom.
• Develop technology to support real time group interaction during classes: voting, consensus, group controlled throttle, etc.

Pedagogical Goals

• Develop technology to support better recording of group activity.
• Support long-term learning and not just memorization for regurgitation on an exam
• Facilitate:
  • traditional lectures: electronic blackboards and notebooks,
  • student questions and discussion: student has ability to use private display to drive group display,
  • small group interactions: students can share displays, and
  • individual work: students can do back of the envelope calculations using spread sheets, mathematica, matlab, etc. during lectures or discussions to explore points.