b'16RAPPORT | Short TakeWith Hybrid Learning Likely to Continue, Tech Updates Bring Important Aspects of Traditional Learning to Remote Students hen institutions of higher education W everywhere were forced to pivot to remoteEyes on who? The Meeting Owl (Owl Labs) is a 360-degree camera, learning environments in March of 2020, 91香蕉视频成人在线 was well positioned to makethat switches its focus based on who is speaking.the moveand, when students returned to campus for hybrid and on-campus classes in the fall of 2021,We have programs that require a traditional the College again was well positioned to deliver. classroom setting, so we were able to approach a Remote learning was a highly successful, andhybrid model with the mindset that: these are necessary, effort for a timebut, as a people centricupgrades that will benefit us in the long run, said profession, it was critical that we find ways to safelyDr. Jason Osher, director of the Office of Educational return students who are in our traditional, in- Development and Innovation. person programs, to face-to-face learning settings,Some classrooms are now outfitted with built-in while also recognizing that some virtual or hybridsound systems with multi-directional microphones, learning is likely to remain part of the landscape forvideo projectors, and screens designed to allow the foreseeable future, said Dr. Stacey Lambert,students to be involved even when theyre not in vice president for Academic Affairs and chair of thethe room, without sacrificing the organic nature of Clinical Psychology Department.classroom discussion and interaction.Alongside facility and policy updates (whichThe Meeting Owl, an owl-shaped 360-degree included ongoing enhanced cleaning protocols,camera with the ability to capture several people and mandatory mask and vaccine policies), and thetalking at the same time and switch the camera focus introduction of a temporary High Flexibility, or Highbased on the speaker, is a reported faculty favoriteFlex, attendance model for Fall 2021, the Collegethe wide-eyed creature might even be considered an began upgrades and investments in technologyunofficial mascot, of sorts, for the High Flex model. to ensure a consistent and high-level learningDr. Shira Fishman, associate professor of experience for all. A lot of thought was given to how toClinical Psychology and Organizational Leadership mesh remote and classroom learning to optimize thePsychology and associate director of the Office of student experience.Educational Development and Innovation, considers'