The first Interactive Video Classroom developed on the New Brunswick campus is located in room 219 of the Janice Levin building on the Livingston campus. The Levin IVC is a fully equipped distance learning classroom that takes advantage of interactive video technologies.
Various modalities connect the room to the outside world.
The Levin IVC is connected to the Bell Atlantic Interactive Distance Learning System, a full-motion, fiber optic based, proprietary network currently serving educational institutions in north and central New Jersey. This system enables Rutgers to reach out to area high schools and community colleges with real time interactive video that emulates the quality of cable television. This system is a fully interactive video system that digitizes and compresses the video and audio signals so that they can be transmitted over ISDN phone lines to any similarly equipped location in the world. The Levin IVC has also been added to the ATM network. The monitors permit the instructor and the students to see the remote sites in a distance learning situation, as well as what is being sent over the system to the remote sites.