Visual Classrooms

Visual Classrooms is a discussion-and-collaboration platform that offers learners new ways to engage with peers and instructors. It facilitates active learning pedagogical strategies in face-to-face and virtual online classrooms with tools that increase peer interaction and enable adaptive instruction. Based on its embedded analytics, Visual Classrooms allows instructors to see where students are struggling and provides opportunities for ongoing feedback. The platform’s features are rooted in learning sciences research, and results show improvements in learning outcomes and student engagement.

Check out the brochure or view the YouTube channel for more information on how to engage your students using Visual Classrooms.

Visual Classrooms can be integrated into any Learning Management System and the interactive digital whiteboard encourages students to quickly capture, share, synthesize, and improve their ideas together using any media. More than just a technology, Visual Classrooms was developed at Tufts University to support active learning pedagogies that increase peer interaction and enable adaptive instruction, it promotes a learner-centered focus with an emphasis on interactivity and scalability. Visual Classrooms provides continuous feedback and embedded analytics that help educators personalize learning and ensure that no one falls through the cracks.

Here are a few examples applications of Visual Classrooms:

• Dawson College case study: how a Dawson College professor uses Visual Classrooms to engage students
• Boston University case study: academy uses Visual Classrooms to improve teaching and learning
• Tufts University case study: how Tufts University uses Visual Classrooms to take the distance out of online learning