The technological age has changed previous conceptions of the world. For example, traditional education was characterized by developing physical abilities, skills and abilities, as well as forms of behavior in person, through word and memory, which were reinforced through slightly more playful activities. Today this conception is maintained, but thanks to advances in the audio, video and lighting industry, much more dynamic and specialized learning processes are carried out.
The greatest advance has been given by the Internet by facilitating the interaction of thousands of people around the world, in addition to allowing the virtual study of hundreds of undergraduate, postgraduate, master's and doctoral degrees, among others. However, there are still traditional face-to-face and blended classes that seek to optimize methodologies and systems in order to provide students with more interesting and reciprocal classes.
One of these systems is 3M's new close projection equipment, which was installed in May 2008 at the Gabriel René Moreno Autonomous University, located in the city of Santa Cruz de la Sierra in Bolivia.
This system has allowed greater interaction between students and the teacher, as well as the development of more dynamic sessions for the 60,000 students.
The nearby projector SCP 712 that was installed as pilot equipment in an important room of the faculty of medicine, has a reader and a digital marker that interact with each other and allow the teacher to write about the projection virtually, also with this marker the teacher can open and close programs.
The close projection of the equipment allows that a shadow is not generated when the teacher is between the equipment and the projected area, allowing the teacher to move around the enclosure without receiving light on his face or generating shadow.
One of the benefits of this device is that teachers can have more dynamic, efficient and interactive classes, while students do not need to take notes of what the pedagogue writes on the board, because at the end of the class, he can pass the notes by e-mail, print the presentation or burn it to a CD or Flash Memory.
Although this is the only close projection system that has been implemented at the University, last year the institution installed more than 100 standard multimedia projectors, which have also contributed to the new educational scheme.
It should be noted that this projector is integrated since its manufacture, with 40w audio, inputs for RCA video, S-VIDEOy RGB video and the type of lamp technology is DLP.
For the directors, the faculty and the students of the University, this is a support system for teaching that has facilitated the processes because it does not require a great deal of training and allows a more dynamic work. For the coming months it is expected that another university in Tarija in southern Bolivia, acquire some equipment to provide its facilities, due to the good experience and satisfaction of the Gabriel René Moreno Autonomous University.
