Loyola Marymount University is a private Catholic university with nearly 10,000 undergraduate, graduate and law students from diverse backgrounds across two existing campuses, with a third opening in the Fall of 2018. The institution’s seven colleges and schools boast best-in-the-nation programs in film and television, business, education and more.
Spinitar, a Solutionz, Inc. company, formed an ongoing relationship with LMU as one of the institution’s most trusted vendors. As a go-to partner for audiovisual design, installation and maintenance, we take pride in helping LMU stay up-to-date with presentation and display technologies and contributing to the university’s focus on creating Active Learning Environments.
LMU has three campuses:
In higher education environments, where the lecture format dominates most classrooms, active learning can be a fun and effective way to deliver information to students who can sometimes have a hard time focusing.
When students are engaged in active learning activities like peer teaching, problem solving and collaborative learning, they are less likely to be focused on their phone. Of course, the feasibility of integrating active learning techniques in higher education depends on factors like class size, classroom technology, instructor bandwidth and more.
Integrating the right, professional-grade audiovisual tools for your classrooms, meeting spaces and public areas can have huge impacts on quality of learning, student retention and graduation outcomes.
Active learning and technology-based classrooms allow students the opportunity to break in to groups and easily collaborate with their fellow student body. Teachers in these rooms have the ability to showcase the work of their students with the entire classroom and even record lectures and group activities for later playback. In today’s fast-paced learning environment, active learning classrooms are designed to help students engage with one another while sharing and receiving information.
Through active learning training and technology, IT faculty and staff have the ability to break in to group sessions with their fellow colleagues in-person and via video and audio conferencing. With a simple click of a button, the trainers are able to showcase group work with LMU’s entire IT department on campus and also in remote locations. With the use of video and audio recording conferencing, educators and staff have the ability to reference past lectures and collaboration efforts for later viewing.
Spinitar has now done a total of 34 Projects with LMU, including classroom refreshes, staff training rooms, and our first ground-up project for the brand new Playa Vista Campus, opening in the Fall of 2018. According to Spinitar account manager, Rob Ogulnick, the consistency that the Spinitar team brings and the efficiency of not having to re-learn lessons is a good asset for Matt Frank and the team at LMU. With such a longstanding relationship, Spinitar is able to propose specific projects and approaches based on existing classroom standards, making the whole relationship run much more smoothly.
