Changing technologies are creating new opportunities for connecting students and instructors across geographic boundaries, for enhancing the learning experience, and for bringing new sources of revenue. Designers of educational facilities must plan for change and create a pathway to the future in the expanding universe of technological options. Sound reinforcement systems as well as video and computer projections are now used to enhance an instructor's presentation. Fully equipped media enhanced classrooms also enable a school to provide educational content to a vast number of people from one central location.
Geographic isolation is no longer a barrier to information access.
Distance learning reaches new audiences whose circumstances or locations prevent them from attending events on the home campus. Northwest Indian College, working with Sparling, developed a Western Washington University's Media Enhanced Instructional Center Control Room provides integrated control of audio-visual systems in the distance learning classroom. Photos by Steve Keating Photography regional network connecting four reservation communities in the state of Washington from the college's home campus in Lummi. Future steps will incorporate a total of 28 small Washington tribes within the network. We're doing this to expand secondary education to reservations not currently being served.