Collegerama Control Room (CCR)

Frans van der Meijden Faculty 3mE TU DelftMediasite User Group – 19 mei 2010

Faculty 3mE: Werktuigbouwkunde, Maritieme Techniek en Technische Materiaalwetenschappen2 Bachelor opleidingen, 6 master opleidingen ca 4.000 studenten

TU Delft: 8 faculties, 14 Bachelor opleidingen, 41 master opleidingen ca 16.000 studenten

Why the Collegerama Control Room?

• More students applying in 2009/2010 (total 550)• Issues with scheduling lecture rooms • Renovation of the lecture rooms; more working

space and new safety regulations (loss of 20% capacity)

• Logistical challenges with mobile sets and operators

Faculty 3mE

Essentials Collegerama Control Room

• Solution to create Virtual Classrooms• Students can choose: main room, overflow room,

laptop/PC• Live and interactive (classrooms and laptop/PC)• On demand (laptop/PC)• Efficient use of recorders

CCR

Microphone A

Camera A

Computer VGA A

Microphone B

Camera B

Compu B

Microphone F

Camera F

Computer VGA F

Audio Amplifier A

Beamer1 A

Beamer2 A

Audio Amplifier B

Beamer1 B

Beamer2 B

Audio Amplifier F

Beamer1 F

Beamer2 F

CoRa recorder 1CoRa recorder 2

Principle of the CCR- solution

Heart of the system:matrix switches for AV, VGA, remote controlled camera’s

Principle programming matrix switches

Web based programming matrix switches

Scheduling…

…actual status and override

From idea…

…to reality

Heart of the system

Control Room setup @ Faculty 3mE TU Delft

Students in Students in overflow room overflow room

Teacher in Teacher in Classroom Classroom

TurningPoint / ResponseWare

Wimba ProntoChat with professor and classmates

Audiencecamera

Interruptionmicrophone

Student Response Systemen (SRS) Turning Point / Responseware

www.TurningTechnologies.com

WEB based Student Response Systems

or+

“live” streaming video+ =

Interactive distance learning

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Next step: Campus wide network of CCR’s

8 faculties = 8 CCR’s

CCREWI

CCR3mE

CCRTBM

CCRBK

CCRIO

CCRCiTG

CCRLR

CCRTNW

CCCR

And beyond that: Virtual classrooms world wide

internet based videoconferencing

Questions?