Deploying and Infrastructure for Technologically Enhanced Learning

Sami Rollins and Kevin C. Almeroth
Department of Computer Science
University of California            
Santa Barbara, California 93016-5110
{srollins, almeroth}@cs.ucsb.edu   


A number of university campuses have undertaken the development of 
digital classrooms that enable presentation of digital media and 
digital lecture recording.  Deploying the infrastructure for a digital 
classroom is difficult at best even for a technically savvy person.  
As people from many disciplines become interested in building similar 
digital classroom spaces, there is a need to produce a useful set of 
design and implementation guidelines to reduce the project risk and 
steepness of the deployment curve.  The goal of this paper is to report 
on the experiences we have had in deploying the UCSB digital classroom.  
The two main contributions of this paper are: (1) a phased deployment 
model; and (2) a discussion of how the proposed technology enables new 
educational models and techniques.