{"id":54924,"date":"2022-11-15T09:00:10","date_gmt":"2022-11-15T14:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/?p=54924"},"modified":"2023-07-19T15:11:07","modified_gmt":"2023-07-19T19:11:07","slug":"samsung-interactive-displays-transform-student-engagement-and-collaboration-at-stevens-institute-of-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/samsung-interactive-displays-stevens-institute-technology-student-classroom\/","title":{"rendered":"Samsung Interactive Displays Transform Student Engagement and Collaboration at Stevens Institute of Technology"},"content":{"rendered":"

Samsung Electronics America, Ltd. is helping Stevens Institute of Technology<\/a> transform the classroom experience through interactive displays that streamline hybrid learning for students near and far. In these dynamic classrooms, Samsung Interactive Displays enable educators to easily collaborate with and immerse remote and in-person students in course content, thereby enhancing student engagement and learning outcomes. Recognizing the quality of innovation and the results seen at Stevens, leading higher education IT news site EdScoop <\/em>presented the school with a University Technology Innovation of the Year award in its inaugural EdScoop 50 Awards<\/a> on November 1, 2022.<\/p>\n

Meeting the new normal<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

Located in Hoboken, New Jersey, Stevens is a premier private research university focused on preparing its 8,000 undergraduate and graduate students for an increasingly complex and technology-centric world. Priding itself on being at the forefront of technology, Stevens was already an established leader in online education through its graduate programs. At the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, Stevens\u2019 professors and students therefore quickly pivoted to remote learning by leveraging existing video conferencing tools and cameras pointed toward traditional dry-erase whiteboards.<\/p>\n

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Stevens Institute of Technology is a premier, private research university with a mission to inspire, nurture and prepare students for an increasingly complex and technology-centric world<\/em><\/h6>\n

This initial setup eventually proved challenging as professors would need to come to class with multiple devices, including laptops, tablets and cameras. Some educators were leveraging digital whiteboards from various vendors that Stevens\u2019 IT team had previously purchased. However, these devices required intensive setup and offered limited capabilities. They also featured a frustrating lag between writing on the board and when the digital text would appear, which interfered with the flow of instruction.<\/p>\n

Stevens found an ideal solution for reimagining the online learning experience right on campus. Stevens\u2019 IT team had previously invested in two of Samsung\u2019s 55-inch Flip digital displays<\/a> in the school\u2019s laboratories. After setting up one of the displays in a classroom, the IT team realized that Samsung\u2019s interactive technology could connect professors and remote learners and enable them to collaborate just as if they were in the same classroom.<\/p>\n

The new connected classroom<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

Offering Wi-fi and Bluetooth connectivity, HDMI connections and screen mirroring, Samsung\u2019s interactive display<\/a> integrated seamlessly with Stevens\u2019 video conferencing software and tools. The intuitive display was immediately attractive for professors and faculty as it greatly reduced the learning curve for adoption. They could begin teaching and presenting informational slides and videos to remote students with the display right out of the box. Professors also enjoy the ability to record entire presentations, take screenshots, save files and send them to students\u2014all directly on the screen.<\/p>\n

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Samsung\u2019s interactive displays feature an industry-leading realistic writing and drawing experience<\/em><\/h6>\n

\u201cIt truly is plug and play. You just turn it on, and you go. You don\u2019t have that feature with a lot of other boards,\u201d said Harry Ortiz, associate director of academic multimedia services at Stevens.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Samsung\u2019s interactive displays also enable professors to annotate on the board with content mirrored directly on the remote students\u2019 devices in real time. Students can simultaneously take notes and interact with content live on their own device\u2019s screen. As pandemic restrictions have eased and a portion of Stevens\u2019 student population has returned to campus, real-time collaboration through Samsung interactive displays has become instrumental to bridge remote and in-person learning. Importantly, students report feeling more engaged than ever in these connected classrooms.<\/p>\n

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Student and faculty response to the displays has been overwhelmingly positive\u2014students feel more engaged and professors enjoy how seamless and immersive lessons are now<\/em><\/h6>\n

\u201cToday, Stevens\u2019 esteemed professors are able to create an immersive classroom experience where students can equally collaborate and enjoy access to the same educational resources whether they\u2019re in the classroom or joining remotely. As universities reflect on lessons learned during the pandemic and hybrid learning becomes a fixture in higher education, schools like Stevens will distinguish themselves with an innovative mindset and the expertise and infrastructure needed to scale up a high-quality, hybrid program for students,\u201d said Chris Mertens, Vice President of U.S. Sales, B2B Displays, Samsung.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Embracing digital signage<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

After realizing the impact of the interactive displays in the classroom, Stevens is now fully embracing digital displays across its campus, including by designing new classrooms and state-of-the-art buildings centered around interactive technology. New 55-inch Samsung displays<\/a> have been installed in conference rooms, outside department buildings and other high-traffic areas. These displays allow Stevens to promote events, share news, raise school spirit and connect its campus like never before.<\/p>\n

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Stevens is now designing new classrooms and buildings with Samsung\u2019s interactive technology and digital signage at their core<\/em><\/h6>\n

\u201cYou expect to have high-end technology that doesn\u2019t just look cool. You also need to have it be functional and easy to use. For people who want to work here and for people who want to go to school here, this shows that Stevens is serious when we say collaboration and innovation are core values of the university,\u201d added Ortiz.<\/p>\n

To learn more about how Stevens Institute of Technology is transforming its classrooms and campus with Samsung Displays, read the full case study here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Samsung Electronics America, Ltd. is helping Stevens Institute of Technology transform the classroom experience through interactive displays that streamline hybrid learning for students near and far. In these dynamic classrooms, Samsung Interactive Displays enable educators to easily collaborate with and immerse remote and in-person students in course content, thereby enhancing student engagement and learning outcomes. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":54939,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29730,29718],"tags":[29696,223,34,28405,369,26095],"blue-badge":[],"class_list":["post-54924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-product-enterprise-display","category-product","tag-digital-display","tag-display","tag-education","tag-interactive-display","tag-interactive-whiteboards-solutions","tag-samsung-semiconductors"],"acf":{"turn_off_retargeting":false},"fimg_mobile_url":"https:\/\/img.us.news.samsung.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/15084615\/Samsung-Stevens-Institue-of-Tech-3-scaled.jpg","fimg_url":"https:\/\/img.us.news.samsung.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/15084615\/Samsung-Stevens-Institue-of-Tech-3-scaled.jpg","primary_category":{"term_id":29730,"name":"Display","slug":"product-enterprise-display","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":29730,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":29729,"count":251,"filter":"raw","term_link":"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/category\/product\/product-enterprise\/product-enterprise-display\/","term_path":"product\/product-enterprise\/product-enterprise-display"},"badge":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54924\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54924"},{"taxonomy":"blue-badge","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blue-badge?post=54924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}