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London Business School, UK: MATRIX
installed in active learning classroom

Exterior view of London Business School, Regents Park, London.

LondonBusiness
School (LBS), located at Regent‘sPark in Central London,is consistently ranked as
one of the leading business schools in the world.
With around 2,200 students from 109 countries,
and 166 faculty from 30countries, it is a unique,highly successful, multicultural learning environ-ment, where collaboration and innovation thrives.
When LBS started planning a new active learningclassroom, they weren‘t
100% sure which technology they wanted toinstall, so they decided tocreate a pilot space, in cooperation with integrator
GV Multimedia, where arange of different technologies from different ven-London Business School, UK:www.london.edu

dors could be installed
and evaluated.
“We were brought in forconception in February
2018, and recommended WolfVision systems
as something to explore.
We then worked with theLondon Business Schoolin putting together a pilot space where they
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ENspace. Through months
and months of testing weestablished Cynap was
the way to go.” SukhjinderBasi, Account Manager,
GV Multimedia.
The vSolution MATRIX
system, designed and installed by GV Multimedia, comprises 2 Cynap
Core units on each of
the 16 student workstations, together with
one main Cynap system
for the lecturer, plus anadditional Cynap for recording purposes. The
system enables lecturers
to push digital content
out to all screens in theroom. The screens aregrouped together in either a left or right group,and this enables content to be sent either toall left-hand screens, allright-hand screens, or toboth screens. When thelecturer is not pushingcontent out to one of thescreens, the students areable to collaborate locally,using the workstations independently of the mainteaching station.
Traditional column boards
are installed at the frontof the room, but it canbe difficult for students
seated at the back of theroom to see what‘s being
written on them, so a
WolfVision Visualizer isused instead. The lecturer
writes on the Visualizer

dry-erase working area,
and the Visualizer picks
up and processes the images, which are then distributed around the screensin the room.
‘Bring your own device’(BYOD) is encouraged atLBS, and the students use
a variety of smartphones,laptops, and tablets in theactive learning classroom.
The Cynap Core systems
support AirPlay, Miracast,and Chromecast mirro-

Each workstation has two Cynap Cores, and the screens in the room are grouped as either left or right, enabling a lecturer to send content to either the rightor left-hand display screens as required.

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ENring protocols natively,
ensuring quick and easyapp-free, button-free wireless connection for allApple, Android, Chromebook, and Windows devices.
Wayne Buttigieg, Headof Infrastructure andMedia Services at LBS
said, “When we looked atother products, their mirroring capability wasn‘t as
stable as the WolfVision
solution, which we foundto be really solid, and that
was a key component forus.”
The room has two different
configurations- Student Mode andClassroom Mode. Whenin Student Mode, the microphones are all disabled
the students are able tobook an individual table
and come in and collaborate as a group. Whenin Classroom Mode, themicrophones can be used,

and the lecturer is able torun a session for the entire room, where everybody is able to hear audio
from everybody else in
the room.
Michele Asbury, Associate Director of Learning
Innovation and Design,
London Business School,commenting on feedback
from faculty, said, “Whenthey come in here withthe the support of the of
the team that helps themWayne Buttigieg | Head of
Infrastructure and Media Services

to run sessions, they are
overjoyed with the suc-Handwritten notes and physical content of all kinds can be displayed on screens throughout the room using the WolfVision VZ-8Neo+ Visualizer.

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ENcess of their individual
sessions, and the students are buzzing withexcitement when theywalk into the room.”
Before faculty uses thenew learning space forthe first time, they areinvited over to the classroom where they are given an overview of how
the room operates. This

ensures that faculty are
comfortable with using
thenewtechnology
whilst teaching. There isalso a control room whereadministrators can monitor sessions while they arein progress, and if for anyreason, a lecturer using
the room for the first timeneeds assistance, the LBS
technical support teamare available to provide
immediate assistance.
Michele Asbury commenting further on feedback
received, said “I would saythat from the students
and faculty I‘ve worked
with the feedback has
been nothing but positive. They love what it
can do for their lectures,and they are enjoying thefeedback they‘re gettingback from students because it is hugely positive- but also for the impactthat they‘re making, andat the end of the day you
know that they are worldclass faculty, who are getting world-class feedback
from students who justlove what what this room
can do for them.”

Each workstation has 5-6 laptops and the students can choose either to use the school devices or connect wirelessly using their own smartphones, laptops ortablets.

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ENThe ‘Room View‘ is customisable to match exactly the workstation layout. Files can be sent to workstations, and simple drag and drop functionality enables
content to be easily pushed and pulled between screens as required.

Two Cynap Cores are installed at each workstation. Magewell USB Capture HDMI frame grabbers are used to provide the additional option of wired HDMI
input connectivity at each workstation.

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