Presentation without wires… Connect. Present. Collaborate.

Presented by

Dr. Dinesh Tripathi, PhD

Ravi Misra

Today, we’re going to cover…

• The need for presentation without wires

• Design considerations

• Looking Ahead - What’s next…

• Challenges and lessons learnt (Case study: RP, Singapore)

Way back when…

► Planning and Design for Future Technologiesnet.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ELI0837.pdf

Throughout the years..

Students now…

Classrooms now…

Problems with wired classrooms (before VEOS…)

► Connectivity

► Strictly presentation without collaboration

► High initial set up/installation cost

► High maintenance cost

► Vandalism

► And many more..

The way human learn • 50% of the time,

human learn through “Audio” and “Visual” ever since AV products were introduced in Schools

• Collaborative environments will bring it up to 90%

10 % of what we READ

20% of what we HEAR

30% of what we SEE

50% of what we bothHEAR and SEE

70% of what we SAY

90% of what we bothSAY and DO

The Learning Pyramid

Reading

Hearing

Words

Looking at Pictures

Watching a Movie

Looking at an Exhibit

Watching a Demonstration

Seeing it Done on Location

Participating in a Discussion

Giving a Talk

Doing a Dramatic Presentation

Simulating a Real Experience

DOING THE REAL THING!!!

► Planning and Design for Future Technologiesnet.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ELI0837.pdf

Now… The Cloud

• A remote disk space

• Accessing the cloud means using resources stored on the internet

• Scalability & Advances in Technology

• Pay for services only

Cloud AV in Education

• Any one can access a display

• Present without the restriction of cables and wires

Cloud AV in Education

• Content sharing

• Collaboration

• e-Learning

Cloud AV in Education

• Distance Learning • Webinars

Looking Ahead

• Cloud AV brings opportunities to the market

• AV components will still exist locally

Looking Ahead

•It’s happening: the AV industry is moving to the cloud

– Players are being embedded into displays to pull content from the Cloud (the Internet).

Looking Ahead • Group studies are becoming even more important • Collaboration space will increase

Looking Ahead

• Collaboration space will increase

Looking Ahead

• We can learn anywhere

A WOW Success Story

Republic Polytechnic, Singapore

Today 2015

Teacher-centric Learner-centric

Learning in the classroom Collaborative and investigative

learning

Reliance on textbooks Reliance on “real life” or virtual experience

Local learning resources and expertise

Global learning resources and expertise

Singapore’s Education & Learning Vision in 2015

To Empower Learners & Engage Minds through InfoComm

Case study: REPUBLIC POLYTECHNIC

Background, and Issues :

• 8 months prior to opening of Republic Polytechnic for the first semester, integrated solution from main IT systems consultants and contractors were already proving inadequate for RP’s goal of Totally Wireless Learning Environment.

• Management spelt out new set of objectives : - Additional functions with a lower price. - To retain projectors already in place. - To eliminate cabling and subsequent costs (replacement, maintenance, support)

• Changes and required Scalability in current technologies demanded a fresh perspective on upgrading the system (even before it is used)

• WOW-Vision’s solution: A Wireless Projector Gateway.

Case study: REPUBLIC POLYTECHNIC

• To provide a cost effective solution

• To tailor on-going R&D for Republic Polytechnic’s requirements

• To provide a state-of-the-art solution that is future-proof and allows for

continual enhancements and customization

• Systems Design & Development for the Education sector:

– Design hardware

– Design software

• To provide yet minimize Republic Polytechnic’s needs for, and costs of

Support, Maintenance & Development

WOW Vision’s Mission and Objectives

Case study: REPUBLIC POLYTECHNIC

• The WOW-PG solution is based on:

– A modular hardware device (WPG)

• Market driven HW components

• Upgradeable components

– Software functionalities (WOW Studio - patented)

• Market Driven software platform

• Customer demanded functionality

– System Support & Maintenance

– Continuous Upgrade of functionality

• The system will allow projectors to be used as a computer appliance, and is

NOT brand~ or features~specific.

Systems Overview

Case study: REPUBLIC POLYTECHNIC

Features

Price $ $2K $4K $6K $8K

Advance features

Network-capable

Wireless-ready

Allows Remote Mgmt

Allows Monitoring

Low Maintenance

Case study: REPUBLIC POLYTECHNIC • The WOW-PG System future-proofs the entire projection system allowing RP to

stay within their preferred budget range, and to retain any projector unit, no matter what brand and model.

• This eliminates the need to constantly upgrade to higher-cost projector models whenever newer features are desired.

WOW-PG Solution

Overcoming other key challenges

• User Adoption

• High User-Friendliness and ease of installation drivers and interfaces in achieved:

• In-class interaction between Lecturers/Facilitators and Students is maximized and waiting-time, switch-over time, and down-time is reduced by 90% !!

• Administration Adoption

• Elimination/absence of cables and on-site troubleshooting, maintenance and replacement processes and time increased the job satisfaction quality-time for IT and Support personnel

Case study: REPUBLIC POLYTECHNIC

Overcoming other key challenges

• School Adoption

• Republic Polytechnic’s policy of enabling wireless learning right from the offset meant that ALL staff and students have to be configured and plugged into the systems from day One on campus – the WPG Server pushes out all drivers and interfaces (and subsequent upgrades and enhancements) upon their log-in.

Case study: REPUBLIC POLYTECHNIC

Ultimate Benefits

• Retained projectors already in place, without any need to replace.

• Eliminated the need for LAN cabling, RGB cabling, switching/matrix devices.

• Reduced on-site support personnel by up to 80% in terms of headcount and costs.

• Reduced staff and students’ time effort and frustration in installation, configuration and troubleshooting of laptops.

• Reduced daily setup and connection time to projectors.

• TOTAL SAVINGS : S$4+ MILLION.

Case study: REPUBLIC POLYTECHNIC

The WOW-Projector Gateway

Specially tailored and modified for:

728 Lecture-room projectors powered by the WOW WPG System

(Projector Gateway & Asset Management)

Multiple presenters, with wireless laptops, in auditoriums (top picture) as well as in small discussion groups (right)

RP Receives TEC Public Service

Innovation Award (Bronze) 2006: Integrated Wireless Infrastructure

– On 15 November 2006, Republic Polytechnic (RP) received the much coveted TEC Public Service Innovation Award (Bronze) Award from Minister Teo Chee Hean at the award presentation ceremony at HDB Hub.

– This year, only 12 organizations received the TEC Award, and RP is the only educational institution in Singapore to be awarded this honor. Over more than 200 organizations were assessed and evaluated for this award.

The RP Success Story (cont’d)

• One Seamless, Wireless, Paperless campus

• Explaining the strong drive to go wireless, Principal and Chief Executive Officer Professor Low Teck Seng said: “Being a very technology driven organization, we want to harness the benefits of technological opportunity to the very limits.”

• “Implementing our campus-wide wireless network enables not just a 24x7 working environment, more importantly; it enables us to deliver even better levels of service to both our internal and external customers.”

• Getting everybody connected

The RP Success Story (cont’d)

The RP Success Story (cont’d)

Q & A

Life is a presentation. Present yourself well.