Case Study | Rutgers University “We’ve created something that, as far as I know, has never been done before: truly immersive lecture halls that make students on different campuses feel that they’re all in the same room.” That’s Matt Wilk, Associate Director, Digital Classroom Services for Rutgers University, describing the Immersive Synchronous Lecture Initiative completed last year on its New Brunswick and Camden, New Jersey campuses. To advance that single-room feeling, Wilk and his team designed spaces where, if the professor is not physically present, students see a life-sized image of him or her projected onto a screen in the spot he would normally stand. Students can clearly see classmates at other campuses and hear them as if they were in the same room. If a professor poi

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