{"id":51507,"date":"2015-08-26T17:46:48","date_gmt":"2015-08-26T21:46:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=51507"},"modified":"2015-08-27T14:33:30","modified_gmt":"2015-08-27T18:33:30","slug":"reflections-on-harvard-business-school-intros-hbx-live-virtual-classroom-kelly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2015\/08\/26\/reflections-on-harvard-business-school-intros-hbx-live-virtual-classroom-kelly\/","title":{"rendered":"Reflections on &#8220;Harvard Business School Intros HBX Live Virtual Classroom&#8221; [Kelly]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/campustechnology.com\/articles\/2015\/08\/25\/hbx-intros-hbx-live-virtual-classroom.aspx\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>HBX Intros HBX Live Virtual Classroom<\/strong> <\/a>&#8212; from campustechnology.com by Rhea Kelly<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hbs.edu\" target=\"_blank\">Harvard Business School<\/a>&#8216;s <a href=\"http:\/\/hbx.hbs.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">HBX<\/a> digital learning initiative today launched a virtual classroom designed to reproduce the intimacy and synchronous interaction of the case method in a digital environment. With <a href=\"http:\/\/hbx.hbs.edu\/hbx-live\" target=\"_blank\">HBX Live<\/a>, students from around the world can log in concurrently to participate in an interactive discussion in real time, guided by an HBS professor.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Built to mimic the amphitheater-style seating of an HBS classroom, the HBX Live Studio features a high-resolution video wall that can display up to 60 participants. Additional students can audit sessions via an observer model. An array of stationary and roaming cameras capture the action, allowing viewers to see both the professor and fellow students.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/campustechnology.com\/articles\/2015\/08\/25\/hbx-intros-hbx-live-virtual-classroom.aspx#\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/campustechnology.com\/%7E\/media\/EDU\/CampusTechnology\/Images\/2015\/08\/20150825hbxlive.jpg\" alt=\"HBX Live\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">HBX Live&#8217;s virtual amphitheater<br \/>\n<em>(PRNewsFoto\/Harvard Business School)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Also see <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/131433852\" target=\"_blank\">HBX Live in Action<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/em><span style=\"color: #800000;\">.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">I think that this type of setup could also be integrated with a face-to-face classroom as well (given the right facilities). The HBX Live concept fits right into a piece of <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/thelivingclassroom\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\">my vision entitled, &#8220;Learning from the Living [Class] Room.&#8221;<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Several words\/phrases comes to mind:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Convenience. I don&#8217;t have to travel to another city, state, country. That type of convenience and flexibility is the basis of why many learners take online-based courses in the first place.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Global &#8212; learning from people of different cultures, races, backgrounds, life experiences.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">The opportunities are there to increase one<\/span><span style=\"color: #800000;\">&#8216;s cultural awareness.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">HBX Live is innovative; in fact, Harvard is upping it&#8217;s innovation game yet again &#8212; showing a firm grasp\/display of understanding that they realize that the landscape of higher education is changing and that institutions of traditional higher education need to adapt.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Harvard is willing to experiment and to identify new ways to leverage technologies &#8212; taking advantage of the affordances that various technologies offer. <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">BTW, note how<strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/campustechnology.com\/articles\/2015\/02\/24\/why-you-now-need-a-team-to-create-and-deliver-learning.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">the use of teams<\/a> is a requirement <\/strong>here.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"js-clip_title\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/131433852\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-51509\" src=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/HBXLive-8-26-2015.jpg\" alt=\"HBXLive-8-26-2015\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" border=\"0\" srcset=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/HBXLive-8-26-2015.jpg 900w, http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/HBXLive-8-26-2015-150x79.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em>Also see:<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fortune.com\/2015\/08\/25\/harvard-business-school-hbx\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Harvard Business School really has created the classroom of the future<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from fortune.com by\u00a0 John A. Byrne<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Anand, meantime, faces the images of 60 students portrayed on a curved screen in front of him, a high-resolution video wall composed of more than 6.2 million pixels that mimics the amphitheater-style seating of a class HBS tiered classroom<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HBX Intros HBX Live Virtual Classroom &#8212; from campustechnology.com by Rhea Kelly Excerpt: Harvard Business School&#8216;s HBX digital learning initiative today launched a virtual classroom designed to reproduce the intimacy and synchronous interaction of the case method in a digital environment. 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