Then & Now

Classroom Experience and Technology

Jose Mercado
Lecture hall, 1974
Rod Searcey
Highly Immersive Classroom, 2014

In the past, the four walls of a lecture hall bound the students’ classroom experience. Today, the Highly Immersive Classroom showcases technology that uses videoconferencing to connect with remote participants. Left: Professor Paul Ehrlich teaching biology with an overhead projector while students take handwritten notes. Right: First Lady Michelle Obama beams in to the Graduate School of Business from the Stanford Center at Peking University while students use individual content-sharing in-desk monitors.